After a few days of calm, Google search rankings fluctuated again midweek. Google Ads will soon appear within Google AI summaries, and we also covered a lot of news about ads. An interview with Sundar Pichai detailed the details. Bing lets you turn off AI Copilot answers in search results, but Google doesn't yet. There are a lot of low-quality AI summaries out there, but now there's a way to find many of them. Google said it's working to surface more heartfelt and helpful content in search. Google is testing special snippet handling for Reddit. Google Search Console shows a strange spike in the Search Performance report for product snippets. Google and Bing recommend upgrading to WordPress 6.5 to support lastmod dates in sitemaps. Google's enforcement of its Site Reputation Abuse Policy is not yet algorithmic. Google Lens now shows richer information and links to your site. Google has added visual knowledge panel source information. Google can now index the epub format. Bing went down this week, taking down services like ChatGPT Search, DuckDuckGo, Copilot, and more. Bing is testing a tag filter in search results. Apple Maps can permanently close a business if its hours and address are missing or don't match. GA4 Realtime reports now show users from the last 5 minutes. Here's the search news featured in this week's Search Engine Roundtable.
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