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Daily Search Forum Recap: April 14, 2022
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.
Writing that you tested a product in your product review content is not enough to communicate to Google that you actually physically tested a product. Google has expanded its product comparison feature in search to let you quickly add new products. Google Ads has a new dashboard to show account managers how they are doing across all their accounts. Google said there is no technical method to have pages show up as featured snippets. Bing’s people also ask added search refinement options.
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Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Other Great Search Threads:
- Autocomplete is based off common searches, but they are intended to help people complete queries they’ve already started not provide unhelpful, unexpected predictions. That’s why we have extensive systems and p, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- Crawling and indexing are two separate processes. I find myself having to explain this more and more to clients. But I still would like one word that could Define the two processes together. Does anyone have any thoughts?, Joe Hall on Twitter
- Google generally ignores the part after # for crawling & indexing, so they’d be the same., John Mueller on Twitter
- Google tag manager is not reliable for any SEO directives. Please stop putting SEO directives/metadata in google tag manager. This goes for any implementation of directives/metadata that relies on JS injection. It, Dave Sottimano on Twitter
- If the content is essentially the same, folding the URLs together would be expected. With hreflang, the URLs can still be swapped out in the search results, they, John Mueller on Twitter
- If you’ve seen an odd increase in 403 errors, it may be a problem on Cloudflare’s end. Their firewall was blocking Google over the past week., Igal Stolpner on Twitter
- It’s one of the common hreflang mistakes. Looking at a presentation from 2013 which we did, others are “en-na” (Namibia, not North America), “jp” (should be “ja” for Japane, John Mueller on Twitter
- When running an ecommerce website, there are various issues that can impact overall website performance. ⚙️ Watch #EcommerceEssentials, a new series where we explore, identify, and streamline solutions for commo, Google Search Central on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Search Features
Other Search
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Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.
Here is a screenshot of the Chanukah decorations as they look like on the mobile search results.
You can see it yourself by searching on Google for [chanukah], [hanukkah], but not yet [חֲנוּכָּה] or other spelling variations yet but it should soon. It looks better on mobile than it does on desktop results.
To see the past, the 2023 decorations, 2021 decorations, 2020 Chanukah decorations, 2019 Google holiday decorations, the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and so on.
Happy Chanukah, everyone!
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data.
This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots of this on X – here is one:
Here are some more screenshots:
Here is test and without test window for same query. pic.twitter.com/n9cYWBOsro
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) October 20, 2023
Brodie Clark also posted some screenshots after on X:
In continuation from the test from October, Google is now testing out a new Google Pay label associated with organic results. Last month, Google was testing Pay Accepted text, with this month changing it to Pay encrypted checkout. More details: https://t.co/MvFNoPmMDR pic.twitter.com/WDVVc4RbTO
— SERPs Up 🌊 (@SERPalerts) November 30, 2023
I tried to replicate this but I came up short.
This is not the first time Google had similar icons like this in its search results.
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

Typically, Google Discover shows content that is less than a day old, but it can show content that is weeks, months, or even years old. However, typically, Google will show more recent content in the Discover feed. Well, that may have changed with the new Google follow feature.
Glenn Gabe, who is a very active Google Discover user, noticed that since the Follow feature rolled out, he has been seeing content that is weeks and months old way more often than before the follow feature rolled out. Glenn wrote on X that “this could also be playing a role. i.e. Google isn’t providing as much recent content, but instead, focusing on providing targeted content based on the topics you are following.”
It makes sense that if you follow a specific topic and if Google Discover only shows the most authoritative types of content, it might be hard for Google to find new content on that topic. So it does make sense that Google may show older content more often for that specific topic you follow.
Here are screenshots Glenn shared:
Have you noticed this in your Discover feed?
Forum discussion at X.
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