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  • Mikhail Parakhin, Former Microsoft Bing Head, Joins Perplexity Advisor Board

    Mikhail Parakhin, the former head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising at Microsoft, has announced he is now on the advisory board for Perplexity. Perplexity is a new AI search start up, which technically would be in competition with Microsoft's Bing Search and Copilot.Mikhail Parakhin from on X, "I’m joining the advisory board for Perplexity. Aravind Srinivas and Denis Yarats and team have built a great product, I'm excited to help them innovate faster." "Fun fact: I hired Denis 13 years...

  • Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2024

    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. We are still seeing really big and heated Google search ranking volatility. Tons of searchers do not want the AI Overviews in the Google Search results but there is no way to turn them off. Google Local Service Ads now lets you text multiple advertisers at the same time. Google said sites hit by the helpful content update, if they fix everything,...

  • Continued Heated Google Search Ranking Volatility Through May 16th

    I have been continuing to update the May 9th Google ranking volatility story, but it is super unusual to see such heated volatility for such a long period within the Google Search rankings. This continued Google search ranking update of sorts kicked off with May 3rd but then spiked with May 9th and has really not let up much since.Both the SEO chatter within the SEO communities and the third-party tracking tools have been super high over the past week. I am not sure if the AI Overviews or new...

  • Google Local Service Ads Tests Message Multiple Businesses

    Google is testing a new button for the Local Service Ads to "message multiple businesses" instead of just messaging one business at a time. We saw something like this before, but it only showed up after you messaged the first business. This was spotted by Matt Casady who posted some screenshots on X - where he saw that button at the bottom of the Local Service Ads listings. I see it at the top, here is my screenshot:Then when you click on it, Google lets you select which advertisers you want to...

  • Google: Sites Hit By Helpful Content Update Could See Improvements With Next Core Update If

    Google's John Mueller was asked when can a site expect to recover from the September 2023 helpful content update, assuming the site took all measures to "fix" their site. John Mueller said you can assume "bigger changes would be visible when the next core updates happen."This came up on X:Question: Assuming a site hit by HCU in 2023 has fixed everything that caused the sitewide classifier to be applied, what is the timeframe for the site to start climbing again? Answer: "Fix" is hard to say...

  • Is Service Areas A New Google Local Ranking Factor?

    A bunch of local SEOs are buzzing about a possible new local SEO Google ranking factor and are looking to confirm it. Darren Shaw posted on X that while setting the service area historically had no influence on your Google local rankings, that may now have changed.Darren wrote, "Local SEOs have always known that setting service areas on your Google Business Profile has no impact on rankings. We've gone so far as to call this "factor" a local search myth." But now he said "I've heard a couple...

  • Google AdSense Will Not Change Minimum Reporting Thresholds

    Google AdSense planned on changing the minimum reporting thresholds for Custom Channels and Search Styles to 100 clicks per day on May 15th. But Google sent an email to AdSense publishers that it will not make those changes.Google's email said, "After carefully considering partner feedback, we will not make any changes to reporting on May 15, 2024 as we originally communicated.""Our goal is to refine certain aspects of this change to minimize any potential disruptions to your business and...

  • Many Searchers Want To Turn Off Google AI Overviews

    There are many searchers who have been using Google daily that are heading to the Google Web Search Help forums to ask how they can turn off the new AI Overviews within the Google Search results. As you know, AI Overviews started to roll out on Tuesday and some searchers simply do not want it.But no, there is no way to opt out of AI Overviews in Google Search in the US. They are going to be turned on for all searchers in the US in the next few days and then for more users around the world...

  • Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2024

    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google AI Overviews (formerly SGE) is officially live in the US search results, my article goes deeper on this than most. Google also is rolling out new AI features in search in the coming months. Google Search has a new filter to just show text links, it is called "web." Google has lowered the search rankings for Deepfake porn sites. Google may be...

  • Google AI Overviews Launch In US Search Results

    Google, as expected, has officially launched AI Overviews in the US and will expand the launch to other countries by the end of this year. AI Overviews were in Search Labs under the Search Generative Experience last year and has finally launched.AI Overviews, which was briefly named AI Answers, then went back as AI Overviews is rolling out to all US English users in the next week or so. I spoke in detail with Hema Budaraju, the Senior Director of Product, Search Generative Experience, Google,...

  • New Google AI Search Features Coming Soon

    Google not only announced at Google I/O that AI Overviews are rolling out in the US this week but a number of new AI based search features coming out later in Google Search and in Google Search Labs. These features include the ability to adjust AI Overviews, muti-stepping reasoning, planning, AI-organized search results and Lens search with video.Let's go through each one (I also covered this at Search Engine Land):Adjust AI OverviewYou will be able to adjust your AI Overview in Google Search...

  • Google Web Filter Goes Live To Show Just Text Links

    In February, we caught Google testing a new search filter named "Web Results." Well, last night it went live under the name "Web." You can now filter search results to only show text links and weed out all the videos, images, and other non-text links. This might take some of you back to the 2007 Google Search results before Universal Search launched.I personally see the feature, but Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, wrote it is now rolling out. He wrote on X, "We’ve launched a new “Web”...