SEO newsletter issue #477
Simon Schnieders
Founder of the UK's largest specialist SEO agency | Educating and elevating | B Corp
Less information overload. Curating only what matters.
Google, Apple and the antitrust tipping point
Major competition victories suggest Big Tech is reaching a reckoning.?
Via Rana Foroohar
Google rolls out voice-powered AI chat to the Android masses
Gemini Live allows back-and-forth conversation, now free to all Android users.
Via Benj Edwards
Google loses EU court battle over €2.4B antitrust fine
The Court of Justice said Google’s practice of favoring its own shopping search results over rival services “was discriminatory.”
Via Edith Hancock
Newsquest hits 100,000 digital subscribers
Digital subscriptions are bringing in ￡0.5m per month to the UK local news publisher. Visitors to most of its sites can read up to 30 articles per month without paying (some stories are for subscribers only).
Via Charlotte Tobitt
Gen Z moves on from ‘Googling’—TikTok emerges as the new search engine (for 'social searching')
45% of Gen Z are more likely to use “social searching” on sites like TikTok and Instagram instead of Google. That’s compared to about 35% of millennials, 20% of Gen X, and less than 10% of Boomers.
Via Sasha Rogelberg
Your Discover feed could soon work better with your Search history for personalised content
A new feature might soon be added to Google's Discover Feed, showing summaries of recent top stories related to your searches.
Via Sanuj Bhatia
Apple Visual Intelligence - Local, Shopping & more
"this looks a lot like Google Lens..."
Via Barry Schwartz
Google News could shake things up with this curious change
The Google News app for Android could soon update its navigation bar by reducing tabs from four to three.
Via Chethan Rao
Advanced SEO Industry News???
Hijacking the back button and SEO
"Disabling, or hijacking the back button, is a tricky and deceptive tactic, since users might not know they actually stayed on the same site."
Via Glenn Gabe
Does generative AI save time, money and resources in SEO?
Explore AI's impact on SEO efficiency, cost-saving and resource management through these real-world use cases.
Via Lauren Busby
Report: Half Google AI Overviews links overlap with top search results
A new Google AI Overview study says that about half of the links displayed in the AI Overviews overlap with the links shown in the traditional Google Search results.
Via Barry Schwartz
Chrome ends support for First Input Delay
FID is no longer supported in Chrome tools.?
Google Search adds Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine links to about this page
This comes after Google dropped the cache link from the search results.
Via Barry Schwartz
Google Indexing API: Submissions go undergo rigorous spam detection
"attempts to abuse the Indexing API "may result in access being revoked."
Via Barry Schwartz
Ex-Googler forum statements on Google Navboost
"Even by 2007, click data was quite valuable, arguably the single most important component of the algorithm."
Via Barry Schwartz
Google's Martin Splitt: We do not use Exif data for ranking
Over the years Google has been wishy-washy on if they use or do not use Exif (Exchangeable image file format) data for rankings.
Via Barry Schwartz
How to find embedded YouTube Videos that are unavailable or marked private
"I hope you can utilize this solution to help your company or clients surface YouTube videos that are unavailable or marked as private."
Via Glenn Gabe
Via Google:?Trending now: Stay on top of Google Search Trends
"Take a different approach to analysing search trends. Instead of finding data for terms and topics you’re interested in, start with rising terms and then narrow down the results to your related terms."
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