Daily Search Forum Recap: January 5, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards as we speak, by means of the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the net.

YouTube might have seen a drop in visibility in Google Information. OpenAI goes to open the GPT retailer subsequent week. ChatGPT’s browse with Bing searches Bing otherwise. Google Search has site-specific product class menus. Microsoft will carry plugin help to the Copilot app. And I posted the weekly search engine marketing video recap.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• YouTube’s Significant Drop In Google News Visibility
  
  Evidently YouTube just isn’t exhibiting up in Google Information as usually because it use to. Will Flannigan, the search engine marketing Editor on the Wall Road Journal posted a chart from The Trisolute Information Dashboard exhibiting the drop in visibility skilled by YouTube in Google Information.
• OpenAI GPT Store Launch Opens Next Week
  
  OpenAI is opening its GPT Retailer subsequent week the place you’ll be able to publish apps and software program that you simply constructed on high of OpenAI’s GPT to the general public.
• ChatGPT Browse With Bing Has A Different Implementation Of Bing Search Access
  
  As a lot of you recognize, OpenAI’s ChatGPT service has a plugin for Browse With Bing, which mainly opens up Bing Search to the favored AI chat function. However Browse with Bing in ChatGPT “has a distinct implementation of Search entry,” Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft stated.
• Google Search Site Specific Product Categories
  
  Google Search can present a browse by class for a particular web site while you seek for that model. For instance, while you seek for [eBay], Google might present you a few of the classes the websites has which you could store for. I’m not certain if that is new, however I’ve by no means seen this earlier than.
• Copilot App To Get Plugin Support
  
  As you recognize, Microsoft launched the Copilot App for iOS and Android however it doesn’t help plugins just like the Bing App. However don’t fret, Copilot will quickly help plugins.
• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google New Years Update, Search Console Feature Requests, Google Groups Spam, Decay Of Search & More
  

  Proper earlier than the New 12 months, the Google search outcomes volatility spiked massive time. I posted the Google webmaster report for January 2024 this week. I printed a giant checklist of function requests for Google Search Console…

• Google Ping Pong Tables In Mountain View Office
  
  Listed below are some ping pong tables within the Google Mountain View workplace, in California. It’s also often known as the GooglePlex. We’ve got seen ping pong tables at Google earlier than however these seem like new ones.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• “Zulu time” is a timezone which you can specify in ISO8601 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Coordinated_Universal_Time_(UTC) ) and regarding the visible text, https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/03/help-google-search-know-best-date-for , John Mueller on X
• Link Unbuilding, WebmasterWorld
• Maybe Bing should start by letting sites easily update their favicons (like Google does). Bing displays many old favicons, wrong image files, and more. They also have no documentation really about favicons, even though it’s a super-visible component to a , Glenn Gabe on X
• No, that’s not a concern. The concern is that it might lead to mixed signals and race conditions. From most to least solid:, Martin Splitt on X
• Shift+Enter is supposed to create a new line. But we did manage to get a repro – a rare issue in non-Edge browsers, fixing. Thanks, Barry!, Mikhail Parakhin on X
• Slowly but surely diving into the Nov Core Update & 2023 SEO winners and losers via @sistrix data. This one is interesting: the biggest % visibility winner in 2023 was actually not Reddit, it was technically the CIA. The CIA is building out this great, Lily Ray on X
• Thanks for sharing this example. I’ve passed it along to the team. While these technically fall within the matching definitions, we’re actively looking at this type of feedback for future pro, AdsLiaison on X
• The #CookieCountdown continues as today we restrict third-party cookies for 1% of Chrome users! Make sure you’re prepared for how this affects your site, your users, and of course, your own browsing. Need to know details are, Rowan Merewood on X
• The Google Play Help Community is a great place to engage with fellow users and we’re seeking new Product Experts! If you are interested in Play Apps, Books, PC Games and Movies, simply go to, Google’s Product Consultants Program on X
• With Lens, you can still do reverse image searching. Apparently the “Find image source” link that used to be at the top of the results was dropped because it was confusing to most people (most people aren’t trying to reverse image search). Instead, when y, Google Search Liaison On Mastodon
• Scam hotel booking sites are managing to get listed as official booking provides in Hotels Google Business Profile displayed booking providers. Check all your booking links, Tim Capper on X

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