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27 stories from the past week in Search Data, from Clicktag.
Google Tests Search Without AI Mode Tab
Google Search is missing its dedicated AI Mode tab in private browsing. The homepage search box also lacks its usual AI Mode button.
Search Engine Journal Hosts Webinar On AI Search Content
Use AI workflows to turn customer insights into helpful content for AI search and reduce manual publishing and reporting. Join us November 18 at 2 PM ET.
Google Adds Chat Option To Business Search Results
Google is showing a “Chat with” option in business search results, allowing users to contact businesses directly through Google Messages using a dedicated Message button.
Google Enhances AI Features Amid Publisher Opt-Out Decision
Google is moving on two fronts: working up the U.K’s Competition and Markets Authority-mandated search opt-out publishers have long sought, while enhancing AI Overviews in ways that could make opting out less appealing.
Microsoft Updates Bing AI Mode Transparency
Bing AI Mode now explains when it answers without external references, displaying a message that tells users the response came from its own knowledge.
Microsoft Revamps Bing AI Mode Homepage
Microsoft has redesigned the Bing AI Mode homepage, replacing the old Copilot Search branding with a conversational interface that displays suggested queries as users type.
Google Updates Affect Rank Tracking And PageSpeed Scores
Rank data may carry one-word results and redirect URLs. Other updates cover PageSpeed lab scores, a shared AI training opt-out, technical SEO and AI search.
Microsoft Bing Adds Diwali Theme To Search Results
Bing is displaying a Diwali-themed festive decoration over its search results, featuring a colourful diya surrounded by a circular pattern of golden lights.
Brave Sells Search Index To AI Companies
Brave sells its search index to Cohere, Mistral, and Perplexity. A 30-second site: search shows whether your pages are part of it.
YouTube Studio Offers Free Starting Point For Video SEO
We gave several free YouTube tools the same GA4 topic. They produced useful ideas, but also invented promises, broadened the subject and, in one case, displayed a high score beside a claim we had not made.
Search Engine Journal Reports On AI Visibility Data
Make AI visibility budgets defensible by testing dashboard scores against customer behavior and measuring exposure, recall, and consideration.
Bing shows sponsored product carousel at the bottom of search results
The carousel provides a separate space for sponsored product listings towards the bottom of the SERP.
Bing Introduces Sponsored Ads In AI Mode
Bing AI Mode is showing sponsored ads with sitelinks at the top of its answers, unlike Google AI Mode, which mostly places ads at the bottom of the page.
Search Engine Journal Reports GEO Not A Distraction
GEO's low referral traffic can hide its influence on buying decisions, while cited research shows ChatGPT visitors convert nearly five times better than search visitors.
Bing Introduces New AI Mode Layout
Bing is showing a different AI Mode layout, positioning the submitted query towards the right-hand side and displaying a separate References panel with source links. The usual layout places the query on the left.
Bing Tests Browse Button On Sponsored Ads
Bing is testing a new ‘Browse’ CTA button on sponsored ads in Copilot results, following the ‘Learn more’ button spotted there recently.
Agencies Measure Wrong Thing For Client Visibility
Measure AI visibility beyond rankings and citations. Use inclusion, framing, and endorsement to show clients what changed and what to do next.
Google Expands Universal Commerce Protocol To Canada
Google is expanding UCP-powered direct checkout in AI Mode and the Gemini app to Canadian shoppers, with a Merchant Center integration planned for next year.
Bing Introduces New Search Option In People Also Ask Section
Bing is adding a search link inside expanded People Also Ask questions, allowing users to run a new search for the same question and explore more results beyond the answer provided.
Bing Adds New Heading Above Shopping Ads
Bing is testing a new heading above its Shopping ads, in addition to the existing ‘Sponsored’ tag in the corner, making it clearer that the results are paid
Digiday Releases Creator Marketing Index For Brands
As creator marketing becomes a fixture in many brands’ marketing strategies, creators’ roles are shifting and expanding.
OpenAI Says Google Search Volume Is Five Times ChatGPT's
ChatGPT's search-like queries equal about a fifth of Google's volume, its maker says, counting each question that sends it to the web. Traffic data differs.
Bing Tests Image Preview Overlay Feature
Bing appears to be testing a new image preview overlay in its search results. Clicking an image opens a side panel with a larger preview, source details and related images, which can also expand into a larger view.
Bing Tests New Layout For Desktop Local Search Results
Bing tests square-box layout for local search results on desktop
Google Delays AI Click Reporting Ahead Of UK Deadline
Google says it has nothing to announce on adding more AI search data to Search Console, ahead of a UK compliance date.
Google Outperforms ChatGPT In US Ad Revenue
Data finds ChatGPT ad visits brought advertisers a fraction of paid search's revenue per visit in U.S. traffic, and most saw no sales from them.