TL;DR• What changed: Google is moving AI from behind-the-scenes ranking to front-and-center answers, through AI Overviews and AI Mode, while saying links still guide people out to the open web [1].• Why it matters: Google says people search more and are happier when AI Overviews appear, and that commercial intent still drives clicks. Publishers and […]
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Surviving the Google Penguin Update
Google’s April 24th update – codenamed Penguin – seems to have had some seriously adverse impact on many sites. Google has said time and time again, that SEO can be very constructive and positive. They have pointed out that effective SEO can make a website more accessible and crawlable. Basic SEO includes techniques such as […]
Google Webmaster Tools Offers Custom Search Engine Creation
Webmaster tools. The focus of the update is to provide marketers with the option to run their own trials of custom search engines. The custom search engines created by Google’s Webmaster Tools can be used on business domains and their subdomains making search queries for any content on the business’s site easier to locate. Users […]
Google is Still Winning – But For How Long?
Although Google may still be the top search engine in the U.S., and by a still impressively immense margin, the last six months have shown that Bing, powered by Microsoft, is leading an impressive race in the competition for top search engine status. If this trend continues to increase at its current rate, Bing may […]
Google’s New E-Commerce Features
Web retailers may have just received extra encouragement for product promotion from Google with the launch of their new E-commerce, product-specific search capabilities. At least two new features will stand out to regular users. Instant Results First, there is the type-as-you-go feature that Google users have grown accustomed to in their web search tool. This […]