Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google Publisher Center removes the ability to add publications manually. Google is testing placing the snippet **** next to the URL. Google now shows IP ranges for … Read more
Alphabet’s overall revenue increased by 15% to $80 billion, much higher than last year’s 3% year-on-year increase. By the numbers. Google Search revenue increased by 14% to $46 billion YoY in Q1 2024 compared to $40 billion in Q1 2023. This led to overall Google advertising revenue increasing by 13% to $61 billion YoY in … Read more
Reading Time: 6 minutes According to Gitnux, Amazon has over 9.7 million sellers worldwide, and interestingly, over 7.9 million sellers joined after 2019. The number is huge, and it is a big part of why Amazon is so competitive. If you are among the Amazon sellers who struggle with Amazon SEO, you need to understand … Read more
Google has served “billions of queries” with its generative AI features and plans to “expand the type of queries we can serve our users” even further. That’s according Alphabet/Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking during the Q1 2024 Alphabet earnings call. AI overviews, which Google introduced in the U.S. in late March and the UK earlier … Read more
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. The Google March 2024 core update is still rolling out and the SEO chatter is super heated despite the tools calming. Google Ads API version 16.1 is … Read more
What Is Search Engine Marketing? Search engine marketing (SEM) is a digital marketing practice aimed at improving a website’s visibility in search engines through paid ads and unpaid results. With paid search marketing, your website appears in paid results. These results typically appear as “Sponsored.” Like this: Search engine optimization (SEO)—improvements to your website that … Read more
The rise of generative AI and large language ****** (LLMs) has opened the possibility of disrupting Google’s long-standing dominance in the search engine market. One such challenger is Perplexity, an AI-powered search platform that aims to provide users with summarized answers and cited sources instead of the traditional list of web page links. While still … Read more
Ed Zitron wrote a piece named The Man Who Killed Google Search. It goes through in detail how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s former head of ads – led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it … Read more
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google won’t change how it uses a 301 redirect signal. Google says its link best practice are still good guidelines. Google Ads is testing “established in” extensions. … Read more
Google’s SVP overseeing Search, Prabhakar Raghavan, recently warned employees in an internal memo that the company’s search division faces a “new operating reality” with fewer resources, according to a CNBC report. The memo comes amid concerns over softening revenue and user engagement metrics for Google’s core search product. Recent quarters have seen weaker-than-expected growth in … Read more
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