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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Aug 1

This account is no longer active. Please follow Google Search Central at www.linkedin.com/showcase/goo... for site owner information and see our Search blog for the latest updates:: blog.google/products/sea...

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · May 2

Just keep in mind it can be difficult for us to know the exact date of a document for a variety of reasons. There’s no standard way that all site owners use to indicate a publishing or republishing date. Some provide no dates at all on web pages. Some might not indicate if an older page is updated.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · May 2

We have before: and after: operators that are still in beta. You must provide year-month-day dates or only a year. You can combine both. For example:

[avengers endgame before:2019]
[avengers endgame after:2019-04-01]
[avengers endgame after:2019-03-01 before:2019-03-05]

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · May 1

The wait(list) is over! Anyone in the U.S. can now access AI Mode in Labs. We’re also adding new features — like more actionable info for shopping and local recommendations, combining Search’s real-time data with Gemini’s advanced capabilities. Get the latest here: blog.google/products/sea...

New ways to interact with information in AI Mode

Anyone in the U.S. can now get immediate access to AI Mode in Labs.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 28

This doesn't stop you from using the News tab, and AI Overviews don't appear on that. You can just tab to whatever mode you prefer.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 28

We don't have a setting like that, but if you don't want search features such as AI Overviews, select the Web filter at the top of the page (or find it under More)

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 17

There is. Use quotes. I suspect you understand how they work, but here's a blog post about it on how we changed our snippets to better highlight exact terms appearing on pages when quotes are used blog.google/products/sea...

How we're improving search results when you use quotes

How snippets in Google’s search results are being improved by forming them around where quoted words or phrases occur in a web document.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 16

AI Mode in Google Search uses a custom version of Gemini to issue related searches. This "query fan-out" technique finds real-time info from the web, our Knowledge Graph & more. This provides a greater breadth & depth of info than a traditional Google search. Learn more: blog.google/products/sea...

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 15

I realize you meant [claire vuissent site:nwn.blogs.com] from looking at your first post -- that other domain doesn't work. I did that, and it seems to find pages that match? Do you still get an AI Overview showing for this?

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 15

Would you mind sharing the exact query, so I can forward it to the team, and we can explore it more?

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 11

To what John said, we make lots of changes all the time and don't do formal announcements of them. Sometimes, we're asked about some changes, and we might confirm things people have seen. That's a confirmation from us.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 7

What happens is that if you use many search operators, AI Overviews might not show. In that case, you may prevent them, but you're also going to prevent any web page results that have "AI" on them from showing. Which may or may not be what you want

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Apr 3

We don't have a default setting like that, but if you don't want search features such as AI Overviews, select the Web filter at the top of the page (or find it under More)

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Mar 15

Your outie found a surprise by typing [Severance] into the Search bar and clicking on the party horn.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Mar 7

There's no proactive option to turn off search features like AI Overviews. You can use Web after doing a search to disable all features, including them. If you don't see the Web option, you'll find it under More.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Mar 6

Sorry it's not available in your area. Here's the list where it's currently supported, by country and language: US (en, es), GB (en), IE (en), AU (en), CA (en, fr), ZA (en), BR (en, pt), MX (en, es), ES (en, es), FR (en, fr), SE (en, sv), TH (en, th), IN (en, hi), ID (en, id)

Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Mar 6

AI Mode is currently a Search Labs experiment, and there's no reporting on those: support.google.com/webmasters/a...

What are impressions, position, and clicks? - Search Console Help

This page helps explain impressions, position values, and click data as used in Search Console, and especially in the Performance reports. The heuristics described here—such as the visibility requ

support.google.com

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Mar 6

Gemini is a separate service from Google Search. My assumption is that perhaps you dislike AI Overviews in Search (which use a version of Gemini). If you prefer not to see AIO, you can use the Web link that disables all search features, including AIO. If it's not visible, you'll find it under More

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Mar 6

Our newly redesigned Results about you tool protects your privacy by proactively monitoring for results containing personal information — and it’s now even easier to sign up. Learn more blog.google/feed/results...

Protect your personal information and easily take action on outdated content in Search results.

Seeing that others have published your personal information online can be stressful. Google’s newly-redesigned Results about you tool protects your privacy by scanning f…

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Mar 5

AI Overviews are getting a Gemini 2.0 upgrade and expanding to more people. Plus, we’re introducing a new experimental AI Mode. Learn more here: blog.google/products/sea...

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

AI Mode is a new generative AI experiment in Google Search.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Feb 15

And glitches do happen. Search has a lot of moving parts. But hopefully this reassures business owners using these attributes (and those finding them useful in Search & Maps) that they still are supported. Thank you.

Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Feb 15

Thank you. It might be related to what I said here for some people, if they tried going from a list. I could see this happen myself -- I'd see it for a business going direct, going from a list, sometimes About didn't show bsky.app/profile/sear...

Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Feb 15

The About option might not appear in some cases when navigating to a business via a list of places. We’re looking into this more. But that doesn’t mean the attributes aren’t supported (About shows much more than these attributes).

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Feb 15

We didn't make any change to restore them, as they weren't removed and still supported, but I'm glad you're seeing them! We'll check more to see if there was some data center issue or something on our end.

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Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Feb 15

Sorry, I missed that -- replied to your reply to will keep the follow up in that one!

Google Search Liaison @searchliaison.bsky.social · Feb 15

If you feel comfortable sharing examples, happy to look into it more. I don't see a way to DM here if you don't want to name a business. If there's another route to reach you, let me know. But they are supported.

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