Category Archives: Google Update

Google Removed The Robots FAQs DocumentEarlier this week, Google removed its Robots.txt FAQ help document from its search developer documentation. When asked, John Mueller from Google replied to Alexis Rylko saying, “We update the documentation from time to time. Feel free to submit feedback if you feel something’s missing. Robots.txt is definitely still a thing.”TheContinueContinue reading “Google’s Robots FAQs Has Been Removed”

Google Bard Can Now Understand YouTube VideosGoogle Bard can now respond with answers based on the spoken words in a YouTube video. Google said, it is “expanding the YouTube Extension to understand some video content so you can have a richer conversation with Bard about it.”Clarification: Extensions within Bard is only available for Gmail (personal)ContinueContinue reading “Google Bard Can Now Understand YouTube Videos Better”

New Reports: Google Search Getting Dates Wrong AgainI am seeing some new reports, some publicly, and some not, of Google Search getting the dates they display in the Google Search results wrong. This is a common issue that Google has struggled with over the years but recently seemed to have been getting better at.A numberContinueContinue reading “New Complaints Of Google Search Getting Dates Wrong Again”

Google Search “Ask A Doctor” PAAGoogle Search has what looks like the people also ask (PAA) section but titled “Ask a doctor.” I am not sure if this is new, because I suspect since I can replicate this myself that it has been out for some time. But for some medical queries, Google does showContinueContinue reading “Google Search Ask A Doctor People Also Ask Section”

Seven FAQs On Automatically-Created Assets For Google Responsive Search AdsGoogle’s Ad Liaison, Ginny Marvin, posted seven FAQs around automatically-created assets (ACA) for responsive search ads. She posted these on X yesterday, and I figured I’d archive them here.Q. What’s the point of automatically-created assets (ACA)?A. When you enable automatically-created assets at the campaign level, itContinueContinue reading “Google Posts Seven FAQs On Automatically-Created Assets (ACA) For Responsive Search Ads”