Google AI Overviews can now show an image carousel that you can swipe through to go to images. I am not able to replicate this myself but it seems like when you click on the images, it takes you into Google Image Search.

Bing added a new section to its search results named “travel stories.” You can see them when you enter in a popular travel country or city, and then look on the right side of the page. The travel stories pull from Bing Travel.

Google is testing replacing the “Dive deeper in AI Mode” button with “Follow up in AI Mode.” This is the button you can sometimes see at the bottom of the AI Overview, after you expand the AI Overview within Google Search.

Google’s John Mueller does not want you to lump programmatic SEO with technical SEO. He said they are different things and that while technical SEO “will definitely continue to be a thing,” programmatic SEO is another story.

Microsoft is testing a sticky footer in the Bing Search results that show related searches. So the related searches section sticks to the footer, making these related searches way more in your face.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

I am seeing a number of complaints from the SEO industry in India and those regions around Google not indexing live broadcast types of content fast with the Google Indexing API. There are quite a number of complaints on X this morning about the issue – to be clear, I cannot replicate it myself.

Google has released a new help document named About Ads and AI Overviews, plus, they added a new landing page that contains a link to this single document named Ads in AI-Powered experiences. I assume Google will eventually add a new section named Ads and AI Mode in that document?