Topic: search results
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Google Search Now Features "Read More" Links in Results
Google has introduced "read more" links in search results to let users jump directly to the most relevant section of a webpage, improving efficiency. The feature is a significant shift toward dynamic search results and is now being broadly rolled out after earlier testing. This change highlights ...
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Google Search Ranking & Position Tracking: The Current Chaos Explained
Google and third-party SEO tools are experiencing reporting issues with organic search metrics due to Google removing the option to display 100 results per page. This change has disrupted external rank tracking tools that relied on scraping large result sets, forcing them to adapt their methods a...
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Apple Expands App Store Search Ads
Apple will expand App Store search ads starting in 2026, adding new ad slots while strictly prioritizing relevance over advertiser control for placement. Advertisers cannot manually place these new ads; eligibility is automatically determined by relevance to the search query, with bidding only co...
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Google Tests AI-Generated Search Snippets
Google is testing AI-generated descriptions and summaries in search results, which may change how users interact with listings and affect click-through behavior. The experiment includes two approaches: replacing existing descriptions with AI versions or adding AI-summarized snippets, both marked ...
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GenAI Search: A Lose-Lose for Shoppers and Marketers
Generative AI search tools limit user choice by providing single "best" answers, hiding diverse marketplace options and often excluding viable alternatives without explanation. These systems demonstrate inconsistent and unreliable results, as shown by a search for medical kits where recommendatio...
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Google Tests New Brand Profiles in Merchant Center Next
Google is piloting Brand Profiles in Merchant Center Next, giving retailers a dedicated space on Search to showcase their brand story, values, and promotions. The feature helps merchants stand out with multimedia content and offers, aiming to influence shoppers early in the decision process, thou...
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Google Search Drops 'Results Per Page' Feature
Google has removed the ability to display 100 search results per page via a URL parameter, which was never officially supported despite long-standing use. The change has disrupted rank-tracking tools and led to a drop in Search Console data, prompting speculation about motives like curbing unauth...
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Google Sues SerpApi for Scraping Search Results
Google has sued SerpApi for commercially scraping and reselling its search results, alleging violations of its terms of service and legal precedent to protect its proprietary data, which is crucial in the AI era. The lawsuit highlights a market demand for search data that Google doesn't provide v...
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Google Maps COVID Vaccine Finder Disappears in Technical Glitch
A technical issue with Google Maps is preventing users from finding local COVID-19 vaccine providers, as searches return no results or distant locations. The problem affects both mobile and desktop versions, while searches for other vaccines like influenza continue to work normally. This outage c...
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Google Tests Social Insights In Search Console
Google is testing a new Search Console feature that provides a unified dashboard for viewing search performance data for both a website and its automatically linked social media profiles. The experimental integration offers new metrics for social channels, including total reach, content performan...
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Google Search Bar Uploads Now Go Directly to AI Results
Google has updated its search bar to allow direct file and image uploads, routing queries straight into an AI Mode conversational interface instead of a traditional results page. This change is part of a broader strategy to integrate AI into search, with AI Mode becoming a persistent and prominen...
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Google Restricts AI Searches on Trump and Dementia
Google has restricted AI search summaries for queries about Donald Trump's mental health, showing no AI Overview for terms like dementia, Alzheimer's, or senility. This limitation does not uniformly apply to other political figures, as similar searches for Joe Biden or Barack Obama can generate A...
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Apple Maps Could Introduce Ads in 2026
Apple Maps may introduce advertisements by 2024, allowing local businesses to pay for enhanced visibility in search results, similar to competitors like Google Maps. This move is part of Apple's strategy to boost advertising revenue within its iOS ecosystem, using AI to ensure promoted content re...
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Google Search Outage Affecting Some Regions
Google has confirmed a disruption in its search results service due to a data center problem, affecting users in specific geographic areas and preventing some pages from loading correctly. The company is actively investigating the root cause of this serving issue, which interferes with displaying...
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Penske Media Sues Google Over AI Overviews Revenue Loss
Penske Media Corporation is suing Google for using its content in AI-generated search summaries without compensation, causing significant financial harm. The lawsuit alleges Google leverages its search dominance to force publishers into accepting AI use of their material or risk lower visibility ...
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Facebook's New Look Mirrors Instagram's Design
Meta is rolling out a major visual refresh for Facebook to streamline the user experience, bringing its design closer to Instagram's and focusing on more immersive content consumption and feed control. Key updates include a new grid format for photo posts, a double-tap to like gesture, redesigned...
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Character.AI Pulls Disney Characters After Legal Threat
Character.AI has removed numerous Disney-owned characters after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from Disney, which accused the platform of copyright infringement and misuse of intellectual property. Disney expressed concerns over the unpredictable and harmful interactions on the platform, cit...
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Google's Unannounced Core Updates: What You Need to Know
Google has officially confirmed it regularly implements smaller, unannounced core algorithm updates alongside major publicized ones, allowing improved content to gain rankings at any time. These continuous, subtle adjustments are not broadly announced because their effects are typically limited, ...
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Why ChatGPT Links Get Zero Clicks (Even Top Results)
A leaked OpenAI document reveals that publisher links in ChatGPT receive almost no clicks despite high visibility, challenging the AI's role as a source of referral traffic. Link performance varies significantly by placement, with the main response area generating many impressions but very low cl...
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Get Anything Repaired Instantly With This App
The Repair App, a new platform launched on International Repair Day, connects users with vetted local repair professionals for electronics and household items, currently available in the U.S. and France. The app supports the right to repair movement by helping consumers find independent shops, co...
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Keyword Stuffing vs. SEO Optimization: Where's the Line?
Search engines like Google do not use a rigid keyword density formula; modern algorithms understand context and topic relevance without excessive repetition. Keyword stuffing, or forcibly inserting target phrases, damages content quality and user experience, and is penalized by search engine upda...
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AI Content Now Exceeds 50% of the Internet
AI now generates just over half of all new online articles, indicating a potential stabilization after rapid growth, with current levels at 52%. The study, based on 65,000 English articles, noted a surge in AI content post-ChatGPT's 2022 debut but found it plateaued after November 2024. Human-wri...
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Google Tests AI Mode Switch in Search Results
Google is testing a new "AI Mode" in mobile search, allowing users to click "Show more" to enter a conversational interface for deeper exploration without leaving Google's platform. This development, officially confirmed by Google, represents a significant shift that could reduce user clicks to e...
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Google to Block Nonconsensual Intimate Images from Search
Google has partnered with StopNCII.org to proactively identify and block non-consensual intimate images from its search results, aiming to protect individuals from digital abuse. The initiative uses hashing technology to detect such content without storing or viewing it, prioritizing user privacy...
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Google Search Console Now Features AI-Powered Configuration
Google has launched an experimental AI tool in Search Console that lets users configure Performance reports using conversational language, automatically applying filters, comparisons, and metrics. The feature simplifies three main tasks: filtering data, setting up comparisons, and selecting metri...
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Google's December 2025 Core Update Is Live
Google has launched its third core algorithm update of 2025, a broad adjustment to ranking systems that aims to better surface high-quality, people-first content. The company advises that ranking drops are not penalties and recovery focuses on long-term content improvements, not quick fixes, by f...
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Web Developers Revolt Against Google's AI Overviews
Web developers and publishers are challenging Google's AI Overviews, which they argue reduce traffic and revenue by providing direct answers in search results, prompting infrastructure provider Cloudflare to update robots.txt files to pressure Google into changing its content crawling practices. ...
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