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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 20, 2025

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz / Executive Editor Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and the News Editor of Search Engine Land. He is well known & respected for his expertise in the search marketing industry.
Google Search Volatility, AI Mode in Search Console, Audio Overviews and ChatGPT Search Quality

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Home / Search Video Recaps / Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Volatility, AI Mode in Search Console, Audio Overviews and ChatGPT Search Quality Jun 20, 2025 - 8:01 am 0 — For the original iTunes version, click here. This week we covered the ongoing Google search ranking volatility. Google is now officially counting AI Mode in Google Search Console’s performance reports, but good luck understanding it. Google is testing Audio Overviews in Google Search.
Google Says Larger & Longer Issues Can Take Longer To Reverse In Google Search

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Home / Google News / Google SEO / Google: Larger & Longer Issues Can Take Longer To Reverse In Google Search Jun 20, 2025 - 7:51 am 0 — Google's John Mueller said that for larger and longer issues, it can take Google longer for Google Search to reprocess it all. Meaning, the bigger the issue and the longer the issue was on your site, Google will take longer to reprocess all of those signals and thus, it will take longer for your rankings to change based on the updates you made.
Google Adds Troubleshooting Guidance To Block Content From AI Mode & AI Overviews

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Google has quietly updated its AI features and your website help document, which it initially launched just under a month ago, with a new section on troubleshooting preview controls. In short, if you are trying to block your content from showing in AI Overviews, AI Mode or other AI features in Google Search, then this section may help you.
Google Video Search Testing Speaker Icon With Language Indicator

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Google is testing placing a speaker icon next to the video snippets. The speaker icon includes a language label indicating what language the video is in. This was spotted by Frank Sandtmann who posted a screenshot on Mastodon of the German Google video search results. Here it is:Frank wrote, "Google is testing a loudspeaker symbol in video search results.
Google Investigating Concerns Over Search Translated Results

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Back in November 2021, it began sending some searchers to translated versions of webpages through the search results. Google then in May 2022 started to report on how often this happened within Search Console. So when I saw a Google representative say they are looking into an "issue" around this and "currently investigating it" I raised my eyebrows.
Google Local Service Ads Testing Background Checked Labels

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Google is testing adding the text "background checked" to the local service ads listings in the Google local search results. This seems to be instead of the Google Screened or verified labels. Google just slaps on the text "Background checked" in the local listing, to show searchers Google vetted this company in some fashion.
Google Dog In Teepee Hammock

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Google loves their hammocks and here is a photo of a Doogler, Google dog, in a teepee hammock. This was at the Google office in Boulder, California. I found this photo on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.
Daily Search Forum Recap: June 19, 2025

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz / Executive Editor Barry Schwartz is the CEO of RustyBrick and a technologist, a New York Web service firm specializing in customized online technology that helps companies decrease costs and increase sales. Barry is also the founder of the Search Engine Roundtable and the News Editor of Search Engine Land. He is well known & respected for his expertise in the search marketing industry.
Google Rolls Out Talk & Listen Version Of Search Live

1 week ago | seroundtable.com | Barry Schwartz

Google has begun rolling out the audio version, talk and listen version, of Search Live in the Google app to those who opt into the AI Mode experiment. This is not the video/camera/visual version, that won't be live in the app for a few more months - although you can access it now in the Gemini app. Google first at I/O with the camera version, but again, that is not what is going live.