Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2024

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

Google’s CEO, Sunda Pichai, spoke about AI Overviews killing the net, small publishers dying and never giving us Search Console information (nicely, kinda). The Google web site fame abuse coverage additionally applies to Google Uncover. Google AI Overview colours don’t have anything to do with the boldness of the reply. Google about supply data panels get graphical. Google is also rolling out a extra graphical and richer search outcomes interface. Google Advertising Reside was this afternoon, extra on that tomorrow… I’m going to attempt publishing the e-newsletter earlier within the day (see the way you prefer it).

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Google’s Sundar Pichai On AI Overviews Killing Web, Smaller Publishers & Search Console Data
  
  Nilay Patel, Editor-In-Chief of The Verge interviewed Sunday Pichai, CEO of Google, at Google I/O and the 40 minute interview launched yesterday dug into a variety of the considerations now we have been protecting right here. This consists of how AI Overviews might kill the net, how smaller/indepdent publishers are dying and if we will get information in Search Console.
• Google Rolling Out More Graphical & Richer Search Results
  
  Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google main the Search experiences, wrote that Google is rolling out a extra graphical outcomes interface that go “past visible matches to incorporate issues like extra hyperlinks and details from Information Graph in addition to AI Overviews.”
• PSA: Site Reputation Abuse Policy Also Applies To Google Discover
  
  Only a PSA – the newish Google web site fame abuse coverage not solely applies to Google Search but in addition applies to Google Uncover. Google up to date the Uncover content material insurance policies some time again so as to add a line that reads, “Publishers ought to pay attention to the brand new web site fame abuse coverage that turns into efficient as of Might 5, 2024.”
• Google Adds Visuals To About Source Knowledge Panels
  
  December 2022, Google started exhibiting “About this” web site below some search outcome snippets, when the intent of the question was to study extra about that model. It was a fairly sparse textual field that has extra particulars in regards to the supply. Now, Google is testing exhibiting this data in a extra graphical consumer interface.
• Google AI Overviews Colors Do Not Indicate Confidence Of Response
  
  Google’s John Mueller mentioned the colours that Google selects for the AI Overviews has no indication of the boldness of the response. Again when SGE (previous title for AI Overviews), Google informed me the colour had extra to do with the journey however they have been simply enjoyable.
• Android Shrubbery Statue
  
  Right here is an Android statue on the Google London workplace that’s coated in shrubbery. This can be a tremendous inexperienced and plant-like Android figurine.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• Both are important. As is cleaning up., John Mueller on X
• If you’re an SEO looking to analyze AI Overview results, check out my new Chrome extension! It lists cited resources, compares them with traditional search results, and dynamically updates as you scroll. Easily copy tables to a spread, Amin Foroutan on X
• The buzz is all about removing AI Overviews! Search trends (data by @similarweb @Lem4) are exploding with over 100 terms including “remove,” “cancel,” and “opt out.” #GoogleSearch #AIOverviews, Shay Harel on X
• Tune in to Google Marketing Live tomorrow, Tues, May 21 at 9AM PT to hear how you can put Google AI to work for your business. Set a reminder on YouTube, Prabhakar Raghavan on X
• Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t there no such thing as a home remedy for appendicitis? Google AI suggests mint leaves., Avram Piltch on X
• If there’s a specific outcome you’re interested in, I’d make it as consistent as possible in that regard. For this kind of thing, canonicalization primarily affects reporting, so your site overall wouldn’t rank differently., John Mueller on X
• Is your SEO tool showing AI Overviews yet?, Mark Traphagen on LinkedIn
• Links to AMP pages are fine – there’s no need to remove any social media posts that include them. The only thing I’d watch out for is that you redirect them should you choose to move to a responsive site architecture (like with any site revamp)., John Mueller on X
• You want to add 2 seconds latency to your web pages? That sounds like a terrible idea. How much are they paying you for doing that?, John Mueller on LinkedIn

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