Daily Search Forum Recap: September 18, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards at the moment, via the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the net.

Google Search will quickly present if a picture is AI-generated, edited with picture modifying software program or taken by a digital camera. Google Search Console has a bug displaying product snippet search appearances within the search efficiency report once more. Google Advertisements introduced unfavourable key phrases for PMax, new insights, increasing extra AI options and extra. Google Native Service Advertisements validation logic for bids e-mail. Bing is testing scrollable search consequence snippets.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Google Ads Gains Negative Keywords, Insights, Reporting To PMax & Much More
  
  Google Advertisements introduced plenty of new options and updates to the advert platform this morning at DMEXCO in Europe. These embody unfavourable key phrases coming to Efficiency Max campaigns, new insights and reporting, increasing AI options and way more.
• Google Search To Label Images As AI Generated, Edited Or Taken With Camera
  
  Google Search will quickly label photographs as AI-generated, edited with picture modifying software program or if it was taken with a digital camera within the picture search outcomes. This label will likely be added to the about this picture function, in accordance with The Verge who spoke to Laurie Richardson, vp of belief and security at Google.
• Google Search Console Product Snippets Report Surge Again, Likely A Bug
  
  It seems to be like we’re seeing one other surge within the Google Search Console Search Efficiency report whenever you filter by the product snippets search look filter. We had this occur in Might of this yr, it was a bug that Google fastened, and now we’re seeing it occur once more.
• Bing Search Result Snippets That Are Scrollable
  
  Bing now permits you to scroll inside a selected search consequence snippet. So in case you are taking a look at a selected search consequence, that particular snippet, you possibly can scroll via, till you get to the following snippet.
• Google LSAs Changes In Validation Logic For Bid Modifications
  
  Some advertisers acquired an e-mail from Google this week with the topic line, “Adjustments in validation logic for bid modifications.” This e-mail was despatched to Google Native Service Advertisements advertisers who probably used the API for that service.
• Dancers At The Google App Summit
  
  Here’s a video of dancers, they appear employed and never Googlers, dancing at a Google occasion named the App Summit. I discovered this on Instagram and located it a bit bizarre however what do I do know.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• Add-ons is intended to be the place to access more advanced features such as custom reports, loyalty programs, and rules & supplemental data sources., AdsLiaison on X
• Bluish background when selecting items in the “People Also Search For” section, Deepak Yadav on X
• Google did some fall cleaning for its Google Search Console data anomalies page, Barry Schwartz on X
• In the UK suspected review abuse can lead to a 30 day review ban, Mike Blumenthal on X
• It’s additive. To be clear, advertiser’s data is already protected by robust security measures. But confidential matching employs newer privacy enhancing technologies – confidential computing and TEEs – and pro, AdsLiaison on X
• My latest research says no, service areas are still not a ranking factor., Darren Shaw on LinkedIn
• Tobias from @audisto did a bunch of JS rendering analysis across multiple search engines. Google Mobile uses a different pixel density, can do 10mm pixels high, and 1648 pixels in width., Mic King on X
• We’ve added a new “reasoning” focus (beta) on Perplexity for Pro users. It will use the new OpenAI o1-mini. There is no search integration yet. The model is slow, and usage is limited because of rate limits. It is good for puzzles,, Aravind Srinivas on X

Search Engine Land Tales:

Different Nice Search Tales:

Analytics

Trade & Enterprise

• Google Antitrust Trial: Company Saw AdMeld as a ‘Threat’ And Bought It, DOJ Says, Bloomberg
• Google takes Chile data center plans back to square one on environmental concerns, Reuters
• In US v. Google, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan defends the DoubleClick and Admeld acquisitions, The Verge
• Trial Update, September 16: Google’s power on full display as we learn IAB Tech Lab passed on Prebid to appease their largest funder, US v Google
• Google knew advertisers were key to publisher ad tool dominance, DOJ alleges, Advertising and marketing Brew
• Google wins challenge against $1.66 billion EU antitrust fine, Reuters

Hyperlinks & Content material Advertising and marketing

Native & Maps

Cellular & Voice

search engine optimisation

PPC

Search Options

Different Search

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