Google’s Search Generative Experience can now generate answers in half the time
Plus, Google said they made a number of "quality updates to SGE.
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.
Plus, Google said they made a number of "quality updates to SGE.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 8, 2023 at 1:37 pm ETPlus, Google re-announced the Google Reader Revenue Manager.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 8, 2023 at 11:00 am ETBard is now better at mathematical tasks, coding questions and string manipulation.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 7, 2023 at 12:26 pm ETGoogle Ads advertisers were greeted with a 500 server error starting around 9:10 a.m. ET. Service was restored just before 11 a.m. ET.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 6, 2023 at 9:56 am ETThe new metrics include country, manual term, mobile device info, minute, new vs returning and session duration.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 6, 2023 at 6:44 am ETBing Chat now supports 30 chat turns in a single conversation.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 2, 2023 at 1:45 pm ETTo enable this, manage your preferences in location settings.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 1, 2023 at 9:11 pm ETThat means that Google won't default .ai domains as being geo-specific to Anguilla.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 1, 2023 at 8:49 am ETGoogle is investigating if this is a bug or a new enforcement of some kind.
Barry Schwartz | Jun 1, 2023 at 8:37 am ETThis new report is designed to help those who have not associated their Search Console Insights property to their Google Analytics property.
Barry Schwartz | May 31, 2023 at 8:03 am ETPlus, Bing Chat rolled out a number of improvements to SwiftKey.
Barry Schwartz | May 30, 2023 at 9:54 am ETSome have been wondering why their mobile-friendly sites are being crawled using the desktop crawler, well, it might be a reporting bug.
Barry Schwartz | May 30, 2023 at 9:44 am ETAt the time of writing this story, the reports were delayed by over 65 hours.
Barry Schwartz | May 30, 2023 at 8:20 am ETSome of you who signed up for the waitlist will get an email notifying you that you have access to try out the new labs search experience.
Barry Schwartz | May 25, 2023 at 11:19 am ETGoogle said this change "will not affect your performance metrics at all."
Barry Schwartz | May 25, 2023 at 8:06 am ETBetween May 4 and May 17, there was a bug with Google Search that caused sites to get less traffic to their video content.
Barry Schwartz | May 24, 2023 at 9:11 am ETGoogle said this will help with newsy queries in specialized topic areas, such as health, politics, or finance.
Barry Schwartz | May 23, 2023 at 12:27 pm ETChatGPT Plus subscribers will have access to Bing Search today and it will expand to more users in the future.
Barry Schwartz | May 23, 2023 at 11:48 am ETGoogle also said if you find issues, you can submit those issues in their forum.
Barry Schwartz | May 22, 2023 at 3:51 pm ETAny site not yet moved over will remain on desktop-indexing going forward.
Barry Schwartz | May 22, 2023 at 8:23 am ETUnauthenticated users, users not signed into Bing, may start to be able to use Bing Chat soon.
Barry Schwartz | May 18, 2023 at 7:48 am ETThe languages include Bengali, English, French, German, Marathi, Portuguese, Spanish, Tamil, and Telugu.
Barry Schwartz | May 18, 2023 at 7:13 am ETGoogle has added a new Google crawler to its list, this one is uses for testing tools you use in Search Console or other Google properties.
Barry Schwartz | May 17, 2023 at 8:17 am ETEarlier this month, Microsoft announced a number of new features for Bing Chat, now many of them are live.
Barry Schwartz | May 16, 2023 at 11:00 am ETGoogle released an update today that is better at summarizing information and identifying sources for its answers.
Barry Schwartz | May 15, 2023 at 5:41 pm ETThese optimized answers go across shopping, weather, finance, jobs, autos, and recipes.
Barry Schwartz | May 12, 2023 at 2:53 pm ETGoogle's related topics filter was launched on mobile in December and is now on desktop after months of testing.
Barry Schwartz | May 12, 2023 at 1:25 pm ETGoogle said this update will help it 'understand content created from a personal or expert point of view.'
Barry Schwartz | May 10, 2023 at 5:05 pm ETGoogle Search Console will add Interaction to Next Paint in the Core Web Vitals report later this year so you can start seeing your scores.
Barry Schwartz | May 10, 2023 at 3:35 pm ETBard also adds dark mode, Google Lens, more integrations, all announced at Google I/O.
Barry Schwartz | May 10, 2023 at 3:28 pm ETIn addition to the new Google Search Generative Experience, Google launched a few new features in the old search engine.
Barry Schwartz | May 10, 2023 at 1:53 pm ETWant to join the waitlist? This will only be available to U.S.-based searchers and will only be supported in the English language.
Barry Schwartz | May 10, 2023 at 1:53 pm ETAI-generated answers will appear above Google's search results listings. Google will cite the websites it used to help generate the answer.
Barry Schwartz | May 10, 2023 at 1:53 pm ETAdvertisers won't be able to track how ads perform in the new Google while it's experimental.
Barry Schwartz | May 10, 2023 at 1:53 pm ETWith Google I/O around the corner, we are all expecting big news from Google on how Google Search will change - here are some reported leaks on that news.
Barry Schwartz | May 7, 2023 at 8:14 am ETEmpty descriptions will no longer show up as errors in the Search Console reports.
Barry Schwartz | May 4, 2023 at 2:25 pm ETOver half a billion chats were conducted on Bing Chat since it launched, 3-months ago.
Barry Schwartz | May 4, 2023 at 3:00 am ETInstead, Google says block your syndicated content from being indexed.
Barry Schwartz | May 3, 2023 at 8:06 am ETGoogle's core ranking systems look to reward content that provides a good page experience.
Barry Schwartz | Apr 28, 2023 at 8:10 am ETThis update was more widespread than previous updates because it targets more than just product reviews.
Barry Schwartz | Apr 27, 2023 at 11:45 am ET