Google has made a number of updates to its how-to control your snippets in search results to clarify that the snippets are primarily generated using the page content. Google removed the section about rich results and structured data on that page. Google explained, that they have clarified in those documents “that the primary source of … Read more
Google has clarified that the snippets it presents within the Google Search results primarily come from the content on the page and not from structured data or your meta descriptions. Google updated its snippets control help document to clarify this language. What Google said. Google explained that it “Clarified in our documentation about snippets that the primary … Read more
Google seems to be testing longer search result snippets again. We saw this recently with Google Ads, some really long Google Ads descriptions and now we are seeing it with the organic/free listings. This was spotted by AbhisheK Kasaudhan who shared this screenshot with me on X: This is what I see for those snippets: … Read more
Google has added three verticle dots to its search results snippets for years now. It seems like Bing is testing three dots but in a horizontal format. How is that for changing things up??? Shameem Adhikarath spotted this test and posted a screenshot on X – here is what it looks like: Here is what … Read more
Google may be testing a new type of rich result for flight prices. This test shows a section under the flight search snippet that contains the dates, trip details and price. This was spotted by Antoine Eripret who was able to trigger this numerous times, over numerous days, while in Spain. Here is his screenshot … Read more
Google seems to have fully rolled out the follower count in the search result snippets for social media sites like YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and others. This was being tested back in April and Google said it would go live last week with the personalization features and it now seems fully live. This is live … Read more
Bing is now using AI to generate captions for some of its search result snippets. Bing is using GPT-4 to make the “search results more relevant and informative and helping users find the websites they are looking for more quickly,” Bing announced. What it looks like. If you do a search for my, [barry schwartz … Read more
Google is trying out another design for surveying or polling some of its searchers if they find the search results helpful or not. This one shows directly under a snippet and says “was this result helpful?” It then has a green thumbs-up icon and a red thumbs-down icon to click on. Google has been asking … Read more
Google announced yesterday that the Google Search Generative Experience has added new “supportive” links to the AI-powered answer snapshots. Google wrote, “you’ll now be able to see AI-generated descriptions of some sources, supported by information on high-quality sites that talk about that website. We’ll showcase links to these sites in the AI-generated description of the … Read more
Google upgraded the Rich Result Test now to support the validation of structured data for paywalled content. This means you can check live sites, any site, to see if they are implementing the paywalled content structured data properly and if Google Search understands that URL has paywalled content or not. Google also added a section … Read more
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