TikTok videos have been spotted in two prominent locations in Google’s Search results – featured snippets and Search Generative Experience (SGE). While I’m not entirely sure if this is “new,” I’ve never seen this before and this is definitely new to many people in the search community. Why we care. Many people have been having … Read more
Google is testing a “Chat with a live agent” button in the search result snippets. We have seen Google place the “Chat with a live agent” button in the local pack and local panels before but I don’t believe we have seen it in a search result snippet. Here is a screenshot of the Chat … Read more
Microsoft is testing a new style for when someone hovers their mouse cursor over a search result snippet in the Bing Search results. Bing will add a shadow effect to that snippet on hover over. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann who posted about it on Mastodon. Frank wrote, “Bing is testing shadows for titles … Read more
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 updated their search snippet documentation to clarify what influences Google’s algorithm for choosing what to display as the snippet in the search results. This change may represent a big change in how meta descriptions are written and how content is optimized. Google Search Results Snippets A webpage displayed in the search engine results pages … 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 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 announced this week that it may use AI to create your snippets. Bing is calling this “Generative AI Captions” and if Bing uses AI for your snippet, it will label it as such. Bing will add the label when you click on the arrow down on any snippet, it will show next to the … Read more
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