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Google May Have Its Own Way To Send Traffic To Publishers Through Bard/Chat

Google Bard and its chat-based search features that have yet to be seen in the wild may have their unique way of sending publishers traffic, unique from Bing’s AI Chat feature. According to some Twitter coverage of his talk, Gary Illyes from Google said this at PubCon yesterday.
We’ve seen how Bing uses citations and, on mouse-over of a chat-based sentence, also has overlay hyperlinks to the publisher. Here is a screenshot:
But how will this look and work in Google Bard or Google’s chat assistant? That is yet to be seen.
Gary Illyes reported said that Google may have its own approach to sending traffic to publishers. Gary also said they want to keep the status quo of sending traffic to publishers.
Here is that tweet:
The Bing chat has one way of funneling traffic to the sources. Google might have another way. But they want to keep the status quo of sending traffic to publishers. (again, @methode‘s personal opinion) #pubcon
— Jennifer Slegg (@jenstar) February 27, 2023
I am excited to see what this looks like, for better or worse…
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Google Search Showing More Featured Snippets On Desktop

Google Search is now rolling out more featured snippets, this is not the new perspectives that it said would be coming at its Google I/O event, despite what I wrote in the original story. It is basically where Google shows more than one featured snippet, often two or three.
We saw this on mobile but now it is rolling out on desktop.
This is not the two featured snippets we saw or the multifaceted featured snippets but rather, this is an enhancement to featured snippets.
Rajan Patel from Google corrected me on Twitter saying “Perspectives will have its own filter and is rolling out now on mobile in the US. These screenshots are previously launched improvements to featured snippets.”
As you can see, he said the perspectives are rolling out on mobile but I don’t see those style perspectives yet on mobile.
Perspectives will have its own filter and is rolling out now on mobile in the US. These screenshots are previously launched improvements to featured snippets.
— Rajan Patel (@rajanpatel) June 2, 2023
Here is an example I was able to trigger myself for a query on [core web vitals details] on desktop:
When I try that on mobile, I get the perspectives UI we originally saw a while back:
Here are screenshots with other examples:
is this a new update? or Google just testing things out @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/5I9w50oBNx
— Vikrant (@seo_vikrant) June 2, 2023
A triple featured snippet! Google is now testing some significant changes to featured snippets (normally showing a single site) on the back of the SGE beta.
We’ve seen a similar format to this in the past under the name of ‘perspectives’, which is different to the recently… pic.twitter.com/NhPtcidgU7
— Brodie Clark (@brodieseo) June 2, 2023
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Google Ads Updates Prescription Animal Medications Policy

Google has updated its Google Ads healthcare and medicines policy, specifically around animal medications. Google said it clarified the restrictions around prescription animal medications that are not prone to human abuse or other misuses.
Google explained that advertisers could currently use a small set of pre-approved prescription animal drug terms in ads targeting personalized advertising audience segments, like remarketing lists. Now, advertisers will soon be able to use prescription animal drug terms where the drugs and listed ingredients are intended for animal use and are not prone to human abuse or other misuses.
For restricted animal drug terms, you need to apply over here for some sort of certification.
Why did I cover this? Well, maybe a few of you advertise for animal medications but the truth is, I really wanted to have AI make an image of a dog pharmacist.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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