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    Bing Shopping / E-Commerce Card With Ads

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    by rustybrick
    Feb 14, 2025
    Remember the Bing shopping / e-commerce cards? Well, now it looks like Bing is putting an ad slot in them and labeled them as ads.

    Google: Google Reviews Count Bug Not Fully Fixed Yet

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    by rustybrick
    Feb 14, 2025
    Google has posted an update on the reviews bug we first reported on a week ago, that it later confirmed this past Monday and we saw a fix rolling out starting on Tuesday. The short, it is not yet fully fixed but it should be in the coming few days.

    Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2025

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    by rustybrick
    Feb 13, 2025
    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

    Reddit blamed Google's search algorithms for not meeting its expected user growth - yea, no joke...

    Google Search Faster By About 60 Milliseconds

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Feb 13, 2025
    Google announced it is testing new pre-fetching methods that increase the speed (Largest Contentful Paint - LCP) of the first two results by 67 milliseconds and for the results after those by about by 9.5 milliseconds.

    Google Ads Customer Match Lists To Have 540 Days Expiration Date

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    by rustybrick
    Feb 13, 2025
    Google sent out notifications to Google Ads advertisers with upcoming changes to customer match lists. Google will set a new maximum membership duration of 540 days for customer match lists starting on April 7, 2025.

    Reddit Blames Google Algorithm Change For Weaker Than Expected Growth

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Feb 13, 2025
    So after Google literally paid Reddit for its content and then ranked them incredibly well in Google Search and its search features, Reddit during its earnings call blamed Google's search algorithm for not hitting its expected user growth.

    Yahoo Search AI Answers Now Showing Link Sources

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    by rustybrick
    Feb 13, 2025
    Initially, when Yahoo Search launched AI-generated answers, they did not contain sources or links. Now it seems Yahoo is adding "Learn more" links to these AI answer boxes in Yahoo Search.

    Google Search Snippet Showing Future Date: Bug Or Feature?

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Feb 13, 2025
    Google Search is showing a snippet that has a date in the future. Normally the snippets have dates from the past; such as this content was found by Google X days or Y hours ago. But this one is now showing "in 7 days" from now.

    Daily Search Forum Recap: February 12, 2025

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Feb 12, 2025
    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

    The Google reviews bug seems to be fixed...

    Is Google Image Search Down Ranking AI Images?

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    by rustybrick
    Feb 12, 2025
    There is some chatter in the SEO community that Google Image Search may be down ranking, lowering the rankings, of AI-generated images, in favor of non-AI-generated images within the Google Image search results.