Author Archives: RANJAN TRUPTI

Google-Extended Is The New Google Crawler To Block Bard Or Google AIGoogle has announced a new Googlebot, a new Google crawler, named Google-Extended that you can use to control if your content can help improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs or future Google AI products. So if you want to disallow Bard from usingContinueContinue reading “Google-Extended – New Google Crawler To Block Bard Or Google AI From Using Your Content”

Google Local Chat With A Live Agent Rolling Out?In May we reported Google was testing a “chat with a live agent” button for some local panels within Google Search. Well, that feature might be rolling out more fully now.Joy Hawkins, a local SEO who is on top of things, said she on X, “First timeContinueContinue reading “Google Local Chat With A Live Agent Expanding”

Google To Block Bard Shared Conversations From Google SearchGoogle launched shared conversations in Google Bard about a week ago and forgot to ensure search engines can’t index the results. The robots.txt had(s) nothing in it to block bard.google.com/share from being indexed and since Google Search likes to index things, it indexed those public conversations.Here isContinueContinue reading “Google To Block Bard Public Shared Conversations From Google Search”

Google Updates Charts & Content On Analyzing Organic Search Traffic DropsA few years ago, Google’s Daniel Waisberg wrote two blog posts, one on analyzing Google Search traffic drops and the other on optimizing website performance with a Search Console bubble chart. Both those blog posts are now new evergreen Google search help documents with significantContinueContinue reading “Google Updates Charts & Blog Posts On Organic Search Traffic Drops”

Microsoft: Bing Chat Precise Mode Now BetterBing Chat’s precise mode has received a big upgrade that makes those answers a lot better. “Finished rolling out a pretty big update in our Precise mode of Bing Chat – no new features, just better answers,” Mikhail Parakhin from Microsoft announced on X.Bing Chat has three response modes,ContinueContinue reading “Bing Chat Precise Mode Got Better”