Here is a recap of what happened in the hunt forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and another hunt forums on the web.
Google is evaluation moving the Google Posts division higher up on the local panel. Google confirmed it volition now display ads in AI Mode results alongside Personal Intelligence enabled. Google is evaluation letting users perspective and modify their preferred sources catalog immediately from inside the AI Mode citations sidebar. Google Ads posted a communication to Local Service Ads advertisers saying that featured professionals volition no longer display on your ads, and headshots volition be optional and won't effect ad serving. OpenAI announced a figure of merchandise updates to ChatGPT Ads delayed Friday. And I posted a new characteristic on Search Engine Roundtable, Is it new AI scan tool.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Is It New? AI Scan Tool
Here is item new for you - the Is it new? AI scan tool. It is a characteristic I idea would be neat to build, anywhere alternatively of you reaching out to me to see if this or that is a new Google, Bing, etc hunt feature, you can upload a screenshot, add several descriptive content and afterward have the AI fig out if it is new. - Google Moves Google Posts Higher Up On Local Panel
Google seems to have moved the Google Posts division of a local cognition panel higher up on the page. In 2018, Google moved the Google Posts division to the base of the local panel. Now it seems Google is moving it rear up. - Google Ads Now In AI Mode With Personal Intelligence
Google confirmed it volition now display ads in AI Mode results alongside Personal Intelligence enabled. Back in March, Google stated AI Mode alongside Personal Intelligence turned on would be ad-free, but that is now changing. - Google AI Mode Citations With Preferred Source Preferences
Google is evaluation letting users perspective and modify their preferred sources catalog immediately from inside the AI Mode citations sidebar. There is a new clasp named "Source preferences" and whenever you click on it, it opens up your preferred sources catalog anywhere you can add or eliminate preferred sources. - ChatGPT Ads New Ad Formats, Updated Conversion Page, Performance Emails...
OpenAI announced a figure of merchandise updates to ChatGPT Ads delayed Friday. These updates contain new ocular ad formats, a redesigned conversions page, achievement emails, new measure partners and a bug reporting / merchandise feedback system. - Google Ads To No Longer Show Featured Professionals, Headshots Are Optional
Google Ads posted a communication to Local Service Ads advertisers saying that featured professionals volition no longer display on your ads, and headshots volition be optional and won't effect ad serving. - Google Pier 57 Rooftop Movie Night
Here is a photo from the Google Pier 57 agency rooftop anywhere several folks were doing an outdoor rooftop movie night.
Other Great Search Threads:
- Bing alongside magnifying pane at top menu., Khushal Bherwani on X
- this is fishy.. how is this allowed? apparent domain is https://t.co/NlweFQKARS click the ad and the URL is "goole" dot com, Jordan Fry on X
- Absolutely, a receptacle alongside $100 of elevated border products has a extremely distinct endeavor value than a $100 receptacle filled alongside low border clearance items, for example. You power inspect out conversions alongside cart data if you're not alreadyusing it to get additional detailed revenue and profit, AdsLiaison on X
- Google organized data exhibition added a "filter by..." choice - not penning a narrative on this but idea it was value posting here, Barry Schwartz on X
- In delayed September and first October, tests were conducted on hunt profiles in Google Discover. - Google tested a UI/UX betterment to the social media buttons and prosecute buttons (https://t.co/RotRUBRwE5) - Removal of the "Profile generated by Google" tag from, Damien Andell on X
- Luckily getting crawled and indexed happens through normal websearch regardless! I forgot who stated it ;-), but I akin the viewpoint of not over-focusing on specialized tweaks (like the forcing of indexing that many attempt whenever they rotate to over-promising SEO plugins or shady services), and alternatively construction item so precious that Google looks foolish for not ranking it., John Mueller on LinkedIn
- For 11 days in September, Gemini tagged its outbound links alongside utm_source=gemini. That gave us a rare appearance at how much Gemini traffic analytics normally misses., Cedric Huesler on LinkedIn
- PSA for anyone using @SERanking - We've updated our position leaf to indicate the awesome activity the squad has done in addressing several changes to how results are served. In a nutshell, we've corrected historic gaps in ranking data and implemented fixes for "unreliable" results being, Mordy Oberstein on X
- They say "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" - this new location fair copied my design, my features and several of my satisfied from, Barry Schwartz on X
Search Engine Land Stories:
- The latest jobs in hunt marketing
- Google Merchant Center adds warranty trait for merchandise listings
- Google Ads extends Demand Gen disbursal adjustments from 3 weeks to 60 days
- ChatGPT Ads introduces new measure tools and ocular ad formats
- Google starts evaluation ads in AI Mode for users alongside Personal Intelligence enabled
- Google Ask Maps: How to create your endeavor easier to recommend
- Canonicalization and SEO: A guide for 2027
- Human cognition is your content’s biggest differentiator
Other Great Search Stories:
AI & LLMs
- Meta’s new business conditions volition authorize the abrasion of news sites, lawful experts say, Nieman Journalism Lab
- How to Make Your Products Visible to AI Shopping Agents, seoClarity
- The AI expectations gap, Anthropic
- How occupation is changing at Anthropic, Anthropic
- How Gemini searches and chooses its citations, RESONEO
- Websites are decision their doors to AI agents, The Verge
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Surface Laptop Ultra, rogue agents and Windows, The New Things
- [2610.15382] Understanding ChatGPT Citations: Evidence from Production Web Search Across Model Generations, Arxiv
Industry & Business
- Is AI dining into Google's hunt dominance? Tech expert weighs in, Fox Business Video
- US fairness rebuffs $85 myriad fee petition by lawyers in Google Play antitrust litigation, Reuters
- Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety invoice to lawmakers, POLITICO
- AI Runs Into Its Next Big Obstacle: Insurance, Wall Street Journal
- Investing in the community benefit, Anthropic
- Google Labs' 'Secret Society' Way of Thanking Its MVP Employees, Business Insider
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
- Why Are Some Locations Blurred Out On Google Maps?, Engadget
- MapQuest Will Now Show You Where Flock Cameras Are In Your Neighborhood, Engadget
- How to track Flock cameras using MapQuest, Mashable
- Google Maps isn't fair for roads; here's how I use it to navigate inner buildings, Android Police
Other Search
- ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now, The Verge
- Continuous accountability for Verified bots, Cloudflare Blog
- Apple HomeView With Robotic Arm; New Mac, iPad Mini Nov. 6 Release; iPhone Duo, Bloomberg
PPC
- Merchant Center Adds a Warranty Attribute for All Products, PPC News Feed
- Data study: What 5,900 accounts disclose concerning RSA pinning, Adalysis
- Microsoft Requires 18+ Targeting for Several Restricted Categories, PPC News Feed
- AI Max Auto-Upgrades Spotted in Google Ad Grants, PPC News Feed
- Reach Planner Adds Weekly Frequency Suggestions, PPC News Feed
- ChatGPT tests single-brand buying ads at the base of results, Search Engine Watch
- Google Updates Conversion Recommendations Page Layout Again, PPC News Feed
- Google Ads Adds "Scan Another Website" for Image Assets, PPC News Feed
Search Features
- Bing adds pale arrows to sitelinks in ads, Search Engine Watch
- 3 new study features in Gemini Notebook, Google Blog
- Bing tests bold breadcrumb content in hunt outcome URLs, Search Engine Watch
- B2B AI Search: Building a 2027 Strategy, Tinuiti
- For Service Providers, AI Giveth And AI Taketh Away, Forrester
- Google Removes the Indexing API Quota Form: What Now?, Alex Anderchukovski
- Why Google ranking data gathering is changing, SISTRIX
- Poisoned Google SERPs: How to Spot Them and Still Track Rankings, Brodie Clark Consulting
- The SEO Contract You Didn't Bother Reading, Nikki Pilkington
- B2B Keyword Research Is Missing The Questions That Stop People Buying, Nikki Pilkington
- Getting Indexed No Longer Means Getting Visited, Duane Forrester Decodes
- Got a Manual Action Penalty from Google? Why programmatic satisfied generation can wreck your SEO, Assertive Media
- Wiretapping the SERP: Reverse Engineering Network Data, Mark Williams-Cook
- Sometimes hunt quantity is a bug report, Jono Alderson
- Schema markup gives AI assistants nothing plain content doesn’t., SerptWerker
- AI Mode Queries in Search Console: A Study of 155 Sites, GSC Wizard
- Why SEO Isn’t Enough Anymore - And Why That’s A Good Thing, Leadership in SEO
- AI slop websites increase fivefold alongside GEO optimization, Axios
- Does schema markup assistance AI citation you? I ran a controlled type of Mark Williams-Cook's experiment., Rick Ramos on LinkedIn
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