Mastodon shows declined growth, despite concerns with Twitter
Mastodon was onboarding users fast as Elon Musk took over Twitter, but now Mastodon's monthly active users are declining.
Barry Schwartz a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.
Google Search podcast carousel going away on February 13
Your Google podcast manager stats will show a drop in clicks and impressions.
Google launches Bard, its answer to ChatGPT – here’s what it looks like
Google promises to make their experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, available more widely in the coming weeks.
New Bingbot user-agent now fully live
After a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent.
Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT interface spotted in the wild
We know Microsoft Bing is working towards integrating ChatGPT into its search interface.
Sundar Pichai confirms Google is working on AI search feature users can “engage directly with”
In the Google Q4 earnings call, Sundar Pichai confirmed the company's plans to deliver ChatGPT like features.
Report: Microsoft Bing’s ChatGPT feature to be faster and richer with GPT-4
As reported earlier, we are now learning more about Microsoft's plans to incorporate ChatGPT into Bing Search.
Google Maps removed policy-abiding reviews from Local Guides
Google is working on restoring the reviews over the next few weeks.
Microsoft Bing to rely more on lastmod date in XML sitemap files for crawling
Microsoft also released some interesting stats on lastmod dates in XML sitemap files.
Google Search Console Video indexing report gains video impressions overlay and sitemap filter
Google has upgraded the video indexing report to help your videos perform better in search.
Yahoo is making a return to search
Yahoo has been dropping hints over the past couple weeks about its return to competing in the search space.
Google rolling out cars for sale in Google Business Profiles
US-based dealerships can now add all their inventory to their local business profile in Google.
Google updates image SEO best practices and Google Discover docs
The title and link elements are most important for RSS feed follow in Discover and Google parses img elements within other elements.
Yoast SEO version 20 with a new interface for settings
Today, Yoast SEO is rolling out a large update that revamps the user interface.
Is AI-written content replacing cheap old content farms?
Red Ventures' use of AI to write cheap content that ranks well in search sure sounds like the old content farms Google Panda wiped out.
Google improves error classification in video indexing report
The total number of errors should not change, this is just a reclassification of those errors.
Product results in Google’s performance report may see an increase in impressions and clicks
This report no longer requires structured data and if Google finds products in your content, it may show in this report starting January 6th going forward.
Google’s December 2022 helpful content update is now done rolling out
The update started on December 5th and completed 38 days later on January 12th.
Google December 2022 link spam update done rolling out
That's a wrap, the second Google algorithm update this month is done rolling out.
Google search responds to BankRate, more brands using AI to write content
In short, don't produce content that is written just for search ranking.