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π£ SEOFOMO News, Updates & Announcement - Nov 10, 2024
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βGoogle AI Overviews "Highlight" Feature Expands AI Responses βBarry Schwartz / Google Search Trends βGoogle is testing a new feature in the AI Overviews within Google Search. There is this "highlight" button that when you click on, it lets you highlight text in the AI Overview, which then in turn gives you more AI Answers.
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βGoogle & Bing In Dublin For IETF Event To Improve Crawling & AI Controls βBarry Schwartz / Search Industry Trends βGoogle's Gary Illyes and John Mueller, along with Bing's Fabrice Canel and probably other representatives from these search engines spent time in Dublin this week to attend the IETF 121 Dublin meeting with the goal of submitting ideas on how to improve the Robots Exclusion Protocol.
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βOpenAI Reddit AMA And SEO For ChatGPT Search βRoger Montti / ChatGPT Search Updates βOpenAI's CEO and executives offered answers on Reddit that hint at what SEO for ChatGPT Search will look like.
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βChatGPT Search Is Powered By Bing's Index & More βBarry Schwartz / ChatGPT Search Updates β"OpenAI's VP of Engineering confirmed that ChatGPT Search uses Bing. They wrote: we use a set of services and Bing is an important one."
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βReport: 22% Of Sites Hit By Google's Helpful Content Update Are Up 20%+ βBarry Schwartz / Google Search Updates β"Glenn Gabe is tracking about 400 of them, so he provided an update saying 88 (or 22% of them) have seen a 20% increase since the August 2024 core update. Some had full recoveries but most did not, and most saw no lifts at all."
βThe 'bias machine': How Google tells you what you want to hear βThomas Germain / Google Search Trends β"We're at the mercy of Google." Undecided voters in the US who turn to Google may see dramatically different views of the world β even when they're asking the exact same question.
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βGoogle On When To Split Load Across Subdomains Or Other Domains βBarry Schwartz / Google Search Q&A βJohn Mueller was asked about when it makes sense to host images or other content on separate subdomains or domains. He said it makes sense if Google is having trouble crawling as much as it wants to crawl.
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βGoogle Proposes New Shipping Data Schema Including Type ShippingService βBarry Schwartz / Google Search Q&A βGoogle created a proposal on the schema Github proposing expanding and enhancing shipping data in schema.org. One of the enhancements is a new schema type named ShippingService, that groups shipping constraints such as delivery locations, time, weight and size limits and shipping rate.
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βGoogle Trends for Researchers [Video] βGoogle Search Central / Google Trends Tutorials βDaniel Waisberg and Omri Weisman dive into the concept of nowcasting in economics and explore two compelling examples of how researchers leverage search interest data to gain insights into the world.β
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βAI vs. SEO: What does the Future of Search look like? βJohannes Beus / Search Trends βWhat sources are included in the AIOs, how many sources does Google actually link to in an AIOs, and how to prepare for AIOs in the EU? Johannes goes through what the future of search looks like.
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βSearchGPT vs. Google vs. Bing: Search Results Review βDan Taylor / Search Trends βTo compare the search results in ChatGPT to Bing and Google, Dan looked at a number of queries to understand the possibility and limitations of SearchGPT.
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SEOFOMO: The Newsletter to Keep up with SEO; News, Updates, Resources, Tips, Tools & Jobs
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