SEARCHENGINES
Google Update Says Automatically Generated Content Against Guidelines When Intended To Manipulate Search Rankings

Google has updated the webmaster guidelines document to add that automatically generated content is against the guidelines only when it is “intended to manipulate search rankings.” This was added to the main webmaster guidelines here the other day. However the specific document has said for the past couple of years the same language, “where it’s intended to manipulate search rankings and not help users.”
The page last week had a bullet point that read “Automatically generated content” as an item that is against the webmaster guidelines. Now it reals “Automatically generated content intended to manipulate search rankings.” The detailed page had seemed to always have that line “where it’s intended to manipulate search rankings and not help users.”
So I don’t think anything specific has changed with the guidance specifically, since it was always in the main document.
Google recently said the quality of AI content is still not good enough for search quality purposes. But Google has also said that one day it might be.
Hat tip to Kenichi Suzuki:
🤨So, automatically generated content isn’t always a violation of the guidelines. It’s fine as long as you’re not trying to manipulate search engines.https://t.co/DJu3miDya0
CC: @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/DqeEjRGqQC— Kenichi Suzuki🇺🇦鈴木謙一 (@suzukik) April 12, 2022
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
SEARCHENGINES
Google Shopping Ads Retail Brand Slider

Google seems to be testing a new feature for shopping ads, where as you slide through the shopping ads carousel, it shows you which stores retail brands are being displayed. I cannot currently replicate this but it does help you see which merchants are being featured in this shopping ads carousel.
Here is a GIF I made from a video shared from Khushal Bherwani on Twitter of this in action:
He shared a lot more examples on Twitter:
🧵 it could be new.
Because here is the normal version of shopping ad for same query without any seperator and filters by brand name. pic.twitter.com/LjD57zRMe4
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) June 24, 2022
Here are more examples:
I just had a random Google search, and noticed these ads in Google SERP with Brand filter.
NB: DuckDuckGo is a search engine, not a rain coat brand. (As I mentioned just had a random search)@rustybrick pic.twitter.com/BMUEl6nn26— Shameem Adhikarath (@shemiadhikarath) May 21, 2022
It is subtle, I am not sure that I dislike it or not.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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