Daily Search Forum Recap: August 22, 2025
Briefly

Google Discover now includes publisher entity pages that display follow counts, latest posts and additional metadata. Google Ads is testing a label that shows how many visits a page received in the past month. Google Merchant Center is showing panels with deals, loyalty benefit boxes and other merchant-focused features. Google is experimenting with moving the follow button within the knowledge panel and provided guidance on what makes an effective web crawler. OpenAI shopping referenced Bing's structured data markup standards, and product grids now support virtual try-on on hover while AI Mode integrates an Ask anything suggestions unit. Community reports include delayed Google responses and captures of elusive ad placements in AI Overviews.
Google Discover has these new publisher entity pages with follow counts, latest posts and more. Google Ads is testing a label that shows how many visits the page got in the past month. Google Merchant Center panel with deals, loyalty benefit boxes and more. Google is testing moving the follow button in the knowledge panel. Google discussed what makes for a good web crawler. And I posted my weekly SEO video recap.
When OpenAI shopping was announced, they linked Bing documentation for their structured data markup standards., Jamie Indigo on LinkedIn 4 months later, I get a response from Google. They say it's a "known issue," & then provide a "solution" that I showed them back in May with screenshot documentation that it doesn't work. 4 months to respond with someth, David Kyle on X @JeffDean This is so damn impressive. Excited to leverage these foundational improvements to make Search better!, Ben Kaufman on X
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