Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards immediately, by way of the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the internet.

Google mentioned it’s engaged on surfacing extra heartful useful content material, after no websites appeared to have recovered from the final useful content material replace. Danny Sullivan mentioned he speaks on to engineers engaged on Google Search. Google would not allow you to flip off AI Overviews, however Bing permits you to flip off its AI responses. Google Notes says it’s ending the labs characteristic quickly however Google might convey feedback to notes.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Google Working On Surfacing More Content That Comes From The Heart
  
  Final week we reported how Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, mentioned how they’re in search of methods to higher promote websites that had been hit by that useful content material replace in September. Now, over the weekend, John Mueller from Google added, “the staff engaged on that is explictly evaluating how websites can / will enhance in Seek for the following replace.”
• Bing Lets You Turn Off AI Responses But Google Doesn’t Let You Turn Off AI Overviews
  
  Google has been rolling out AI Overviews in its search outcomes since final week and increasingly searchers are tremendous sad that there isn’t any strategy to flip off the AI Overviews. Michael Schechter, a Vice President at Microsoft, shared a screenshot in Bing, on how one can flip off Copilot responses in Bing Search with the clicking of a button.
• Danny Sullivan: We Speak Directly To Engineers Working On Google Ranking Systems
  
  Google was requested the place Google’s Danny Sullivan and John Mueller get their data from when responding to look and ranking-related questions. Sullivan responded on to the engineers who code these rating techniques at Google.
• Google Says Notes On Search Now Ends Soon
  
  Google has up to date the Google Search Labs to say that Notes on Search now “ends quickly.” As a reminder, final November Google rolled out as a labs the Notes characteristic in Google Search and Google Uncover.
• Comments To Notes In Google Search?
  
  Google could also be bringing feedback to the Notes on Google Search (and Uncover) characteristic. Notes on Search got here final November as a labs characteristic in Google Search and Google Uncover. Google lately examined a brand new button for the notes characteristic in Search. Now Google could also be testing feedback on Notes.
• NYC Bring Your Child To Work Day At Google NYC
  
  Google held its annual convey your little one to work day on the Google New York Metropolis workplace. This was again in late April and I discovered some cute pictures of children at Google doing face portray, gaming, balloons and extra.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• OpenAI has added a ‘make this chat discoverable’ option, letting users decide if their chats should appear in search engines. That’s cool! (cont..), Shameem Adhikarath on X
• Yesterday was my last day as head of alignment, superalignment lead, and executive @OpenAI, Jan Leike on X
• AI Overviews aren’t just good. They’re necessary for the long-term health of the web. It is time for a thread about AI, search and really the (nearish) future of publishing and the web. (and plz subscribe to the podcast at the end i, Bryan Casey on X
• Google has launched a small update for Search Knowledge Panels, specifically now displaying in this case the total numbers of teams managed by Josep Guardiola and Arne Slot starting with the last one (current or former)., Radu Oncescu on X
• Google! I have used your weapons against you! You have been cursed by The Smiling Man!, Ed Zitron on X
• Search engines and users don’t see what you did before you show the images to them., John Mueller on X
• I just left Google last month. The “AI Projects” I was working on were poorly motivated and driven by this mindless panic that as long as it had “AI” in it, it would be great., Scott Jenson On LinkedIn

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Hyperlinks & Content material Advertising and marketing

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Cellular & Voice

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