Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2024

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

Microsoft Bing was offline for some time at this time, taking down third-party websites like ChatGPT Search, DuckDuckGo and even its advert merchandise. Google is testing particular therapies for Reddit leads to search. Google is testing from sources throughout the net with out pictures. Google is testing changing associated search with individuals additionally seek for. Google Adverts has a referral program, unsure if that’s new. Google up to date its robots.txt parser code in GitHub.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Google Tests Special Reddit Search Result Snippet Interface?
  
  Google could also be testing a particular search outcome snippet interface for Reddit search outcomes. On this check, Google appears to be exhibiting the variety of upvotes and the variety of feedback on the Reddit thread.
• Bing Search Is Down; Takes Down DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, ChatGPT Search & More
  
  Bing Search is presently down and/or having large latency points. The Bing dwelling web page hundreds a grey boring background, the Bing search outcomes largely hundreds errors pages and if it hundreds search outcomes, these outcomes are sparse. Plus, Bing’s APIs are down, so Microsoft Copilot and different providers are down, together with companions like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, ChatGPT Search are all down.
• Google Search: Sources Across The Web Without Images
  
  The from sources throughout the net Google Search characteristic is testing exhibiting outcomes with out picture thumbnails. Google has reportedly been testing the imageless model since January of this yr.
• Google Tests Replacing Related Searches With People Also Search For?
  
  Google could also be testing changing the “associated searches” field with the “individuals additionally seek for” field. The 2 are functionally not that totally different, from what I can inform.
• Google Ads Referral / Affiliate Program
  
  Do you know Google Adverts has a referral or associates program. The place you may refer Google Adverts a brand new advertiser and you’ll earn $250 in advert credit in Google Adverts. I’m not positive if that is new, however Anthony Higman thinks it could be new.
• Google Robots.txt Parser Updated In GitHub
  
  Google has up to date its open supply robots.txt parser code on GitHub the opposite day. Gary Illyes from Google pushed the replace yesterday morning to the repository there.
• Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, With PPCers At Google Marketing Live
  
  Right here is a photograph from Google Advertising and marketing Dwell on Tuesday the place you may see Google’s Adverts Liaison, Ginny Marvin, with plenty of well-respected paid search professionals, aka PPCers.

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