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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. This past weekend…
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Google confirmed an indexing bug with Google News publishers that went on for about three weeks. It started around June 21st and was officially fixed on Friday, July 14th.
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Google Search seems to be testing a new feature to help searchers learn to speak in English (and maybe other languages). It is called Practice Speaking and can be triggered…
Microsoft Bing has this feature where you can see “people also ask” like results under search result snippets, I am not sure what Microsoft calls them, but they provide additional…
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Google is testing an icon or button overlayed on images in the image search results to “see more like this.” I personally do not see this myself, so it must…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google’s search results…
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Google is going to release its second batch up improvements for Site names in the search results “in the near future,” Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison said.
Hey there – it is me again – reporting about another unconfirmed Google search ranking algorithm update. This one seemed to start yesterday, July 12th. I am seeing a lot…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Google’s explore section, which we first found a year ago and is now live for all, now seems to be showing Google Ads or sponsored listings. I have not seen…
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Google is testing a feature to swipe over a specific search result snippet so you can save or share it. When you swipe over the snippet, you are presented with…
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google has a…
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Anthropic launched Claude 2, an upgraded version of its conversational AI assistant, with improved reasoning, safety, coding skills, and file uploading capabilities in public beta. The post Anthropic Launches Claude…
Google AdSense now supports Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) payments in EUR currency for publishers in many new countries. The Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) is a payment-integration initiative of…
Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, said he would take the feedback he heard from the publisher community yesterday back to the Google Search team. This feedback was around Google’s advice…
Google Search Console’s page indexing report should show more fine-grained page indexing issues starting on July 2nd. Google forgot to add an annotation to the report back then but promised…
After hearing reports that the Google News team is working on fixing an issue, Google has confirmed it last night. Many publishers were either not showing up in Google News…
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Google is addressing a reported issue impacting Google News indexing, resulting in decreased traffic for content publishers until the problem is resolved. The post Google News Indexing Disruption Causes Decrease…
Google clarifies advice surrounding the use of noindex for publishers concerned about syndicated news content outranking original sources. The post Google Recommends Noindex For Syndicated News Content appeared first on…
Google began to send out email notifications about the new INP, Interaction to Next, core web vitals report recently. I believe Google started to send them out shortly after the…
Google has removed the call tracking feature from Google Business Profiles. Supposedly this was a very buggy feature that would not work well and sometimes send calls to the wrong…