Google local map pack goes missing in search results (now fixed)
The local pack that Google generally shows for queries with local intent has gone missing.
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The local pack that Google generally shows for queries with local intent has gone missing.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 28, 2023 at 11:34 am ETMicrosoft said they will be adding reporting and tools to Bing Webmaster Tools to help publishers understand how Bing Chat users interact with their sites.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 28, 2023 at 10:25 am ETThese updates include a higher response rate and less hallucinations.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 28, 2023 at 7:48 am ETMicrosoft is slowly rolling out upgrades to Bing AI chat including setting the tone to creative, balanced or precise.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 27, 2023 at 7:44 am ETGoogle confirmed this test will impact 4% of Canadians. It's similar to what Google did in Australia in 2021.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 23, 2023 at 11:45 am ETGoogle core updates and other algorithm updates impacted Discover, but now Google says the helpful content system does as well.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 23, 2023 at 8:27 am ETMake sure to review user permissions and levels of access with this update.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 22, 2023 at 10:28 am ETThis begins to roll out to some users on Bing and Edge mobile apps on iOS and Android.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 22, 2023 at 8:20 am ETCompany reveals details about how its Prometheus AI model makes Bing Chat so fast, current and impressive.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 22, 2023 at 7:26 am ETThis update brings new languages to the product reviews update including English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, and Polish.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 21, 2023 at 5:08 pm ETThis will allow you to potentially do more analysis with your data in other platforms.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 21, 2023 at 8:10 am ETInstead, Google recommends you use Google Search Console's crawl rate feature.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 17, 2023 at 12:35 pm ETSearch engines should not show search results as answers
Barry Schwartz | Feb 17, 2023 at 11:25 am ETContent creators may need to entertain and maybe Google should add a new E to E-E-A-T.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 17, 2023 at 9:25 am ETSusan Wojcicki has been with Google since its infancy, in fact, the first Google offices were out of her garage.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 16, 2023 at 1:42 pm ET71% gave thumbs up to the results in the new Bing. But Microsoft wants to make sure it gets better at providing timely information.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 16, 2023 at 7:41 am ETThis help document went from basics on crawlable links to a much more robust link best practices.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 15, 2023 at 4:48 pm ETWill traffic from search to publishers drop with the new long chat like answers.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 13, 2023 at 11:32 am ETGoogle posted that the time to interact metric is being removed from Lighthouse 10 and thus that scoring weight will be assigned to cumulative layout shift.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 10, 2023 at 12:53 pm ETThe excitement and interest are very real for the new Microsoft Bing search experience.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 10, 2023 at 10:22 am ETJanuary 18, 2023 there was a large Bing search ranking algorithm update - one that Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi now confirmed.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 9, 2023 at 4:51 pm ETAlso consider evaluating the "who, how and why" of your content.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 8, 2023 at 11:57 am ETGoogle Lens is now used over 10 billion times per month.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 8, 2023 at 9:10 am ETBing also updated the answers section to incorporate the new AI version of Bing Search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 8, 2023 at 7:52 am ETIn addition to adding ChatGPT, using GPT-3.5, Bing is applying AI to improve the relevancy of its core search ranking engine.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 7, 2023 at 1:30 pm ETMastodon was onboarding users fast as Elon Musk took over Twitter, but now Mastodon's monthly active users are declining.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 7, 2023 at 11:13 am ETYour Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 7, 2023 at 8:12 am ETGoogle promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 6, 2023 at 2:00 pm ETAfter a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 3, 2023 at 12:27 pm ETWe know Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT into its search interface.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 3, 2023 at 7:59 am ETIn the Google Q4 earnings call, Sundar Pichai confirmed the company's plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 2, 2023 at 8:08 pm ETAs reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft's plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 4:19 pm ETGoogle is working on restoring the reviews over the next few weeks.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 3:13 pm ETMicrosoft also released some interesting stats on lastmod dates in XML sitemap files.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 12:30 pm ETGoogle has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
Barry Schwartz | Feb 1, 2023 at 11:36 am ETYahoo has been dropping hints over the past couple weeks about its return to competing in the search space.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 30, 2023 at 6:00 am ETUS-based dealerships can now add all their inventory to their local business profile in Google.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 26, 2023 at 7:25 am ETThe title and link elements are most important for RSS feed follow in Discover and Google parses img elements within other elements.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 24, 2023 at 8:41 am ETToday, Yoast SEO is rolling out a large update that revamps the user interface.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 24, 2023 at 5:48 am ETRed Ventures' use of AI to write cheap content that ranks well in search sure sounds like the old content farms Google Panda wiped out.
Barry Schwartz | Jan 20, 2023 at 12:52 pm ET