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AI overviews arrive in the US, why Google deindexed so many sites, and more
Americans reached the moon first. And they’re getting overviews first, too: AI overviews—a generated preview of a topic pulled from multiple sources—just arrived in the US, and other countries should be coming soon. Basically, overviews help users get answers to more complex queries when relevant information is scattered. If traditional Search queries are good enough,…
Is Google’s Search results count on its way out?
Google’s playing hide and seek, and SEOs don’t like it. Marco, Polo: An important metric, the search results count, seems to have disappeared from Google Search. You now have to click on the “Tools” button to find it. Why? We’re not really sure. The theory is that the count number is just an estimate, and…
Links don’t matter that much anymore, and Google’s already enforcing its site reputation abuse policy
Two reminders from Google today… It’s not about the links: Google has said—again—that links aren’t as important as they used to be. To be exact, Google’s Gary Illyes said the company needs “very few links to rank pages,” and implied that this will continue to be the case. Of course, Google makes lots of statements…