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Microsoft is testing a new image carousel within the Bing Search results. This image carousel shows two rows of images, instead of one, has related searches with an arrow at the top of the carousel and a new larger squared off arrow format.

It is with a heavy heart that I am reporting that one of the founding pillars of the SEO industry, one of the first female SEOs in our industry, and one of the individuals who made the industry what it is today, has passed away. Jill Whalen retired from SEO over a decade ago after her fight to ensure SEOs take content seriously, over other factors, was victorious.

An engineer recently sent me some questions about the Product Management role. I took a long time to respond because I saw it as a great opportunity to reflect on the role and what it means to me. I decided to share my answers below, in case it’s useful for anyone else! What did you like the most about your job as a PM? (I say past tense because Director can be different)

The joy of shipping, and shepherding products and features from ideas all the way through execution and user feedback...

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.

Google said larger issues that linger longer on your site, with unrelated content...

This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility. Google is now officially counting AI Mode in Google Search Console's performance reports, but good luck understanding it. Google is testing Audio Overviews...

Google's John Mueller said that for larger and longer issues, it can take Google longer for Google Search to reprocess it all. Meaning, the bigger the issue and the longer the issue was on your site, Google will take longer to reprocess all of those signals and thus, it will take longer for your rankings to change based on the updates you made.

Google has quietly updated its AI features and your website help document, which it initially launched just under a month ago, with a new section on troubleshooting preview controls. In short, if you are trying to block your content from showing in AI Overviews, AI Mode or other AI features in Google Search, then this section may help you.

Google is testing placing a speaker icon next to the video snippets. The speaker icon includes a language label indicating what language the video is in.

Back in November 2021, it began sending some searchers to translated versions of webpages through the search results. Google then in May 2022 started to report on how often this happened within Search Console. So when I saw a Google representative say they are looking into an "issue" around this and "currently investigating it" I raised my eyebrows.

Google is testing adding the text "background checked" to the local service ads listings in the Google local search results. This seems to be instead of the Google Screened or verified labels.