Forget gaming AI search. Focus on credibility. Expert-backed insights, strategic collaborations, and consensus-building will keep your content relevant in today’s AI-driven search.
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Microsoft is testing adding a read more link to the Bing Copilot Answers in Bing Search. The read more link will expand the answer to show more content, generating a more detailed and longer answer for your query.

Google Ads has updated the number of characters you can add for the Performance Max campaigns descriptions to all be 90 characters long. Previously, there was a short description of 60 characters, but now they have all been updated to show 90 characters.

About a year ago, we covered numerous tests with shaded site name and favicon sections of the snippet. Google continues to test this, but we’re now seeing a blue gradient version of the style.

Google is testing a newish section in the Google local panel to tell searchers how far that business is from your location. Google is testing adding either a “Get there" data point and/or a "From your location" data point.

You’re not selling a service. You’re selling a solution to a painful, expensive problem — Mike Martin (@MikeMartinGB) Apr 22, 2025 from Twitter https://twitter.com/MikeMartinGB April 22, 2025 at 12:05PM

Hallucinations in Google’s AI Overviews offer insights into how the ranking algorithms understand search queries and choose answers
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