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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 3, 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.
Welcome back and today we covered a change to the Search Console product rich results reporting error handling. Google also said site quality again is site level and even a site with different language sections can impact each other. Google said sites where the IP address is duplicating your domain is not going to hurt you. Google’s coverage report won’t gain support for the unavailable after meta tag. Google’s John Mueller was helping SEOs during New Years eve and day again. I posted the most cited people in the search industry on this site. I posted my Friday recap video and also a vlog with Colt Sliva.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Google Search Console Products Rich Result Report Updated
On December 28, 2021, Google updated the rich results report for product structured data in Google Search Console. The reporting update may result in a change in the number of issues, errors and warnings that you get on and after December 28th in that report. - Google: Quality Of Your Languages On Your Multilingual Site Can Impact Each Other
Google’s John Mueller confirmed on the December 31st SEO hangout that if you have multiple versions of your site, and one version is deemed high quality by Google and the other version is deemed low quality by Google – the low quality version can negatively impact the high quality version. - Google: Site Duplicated With IP Address Won’t Lead To Your Site Being Removed From Search
Generally Google will list a site in its search results with the domain name, not the IP address associated with the domain name. But if you see both and if your site is crawlable via the IP, it is not going to lead to your site being deindexed by Google, said John Mueller. - John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On New Years 2022
As expected, John Mueller of Google was at it again on New Years eve and New Years day – helping SEOs and site owners with their Google Search and SEO issues. Like on Christmas Eve 2021, John also did a video hangout on New Years eve, plus he was on social responding to questions throughout New Years. - Google: The Coverage Report Won’t Get unavailable_after Meta Tag
John Mueller of Google was asked if the Google Search Console coverage report can show the unavailable_after meta tag in that report. John said he doubts it because it is “too niche.” - Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Search Ranking Tremors, December Was Volatile, Sex Toy Companies In Search & New Years Is Here
The week between Christmas and New Years is general slow and it was but we did have some Google search ranking jolts and tremors this week… - Top Contributors To The Search Engine Roundtable In 2021
As you all know, I source a lot of forums and Twitter threads here for the stories that I write. Without the amazing individuals that make up the search industry, this site would not exist. In fact, when I started this site over 18 years ago, its purpose was to cover what the community is buzzing about and this site remains true to that today. - Biking At The GooglePlex
- Vlog #153: Colt Sliva On Going Beyond Frequency Statistics In SEO
In part one, we spoke about how Colt Sliva became an SEO engineer and some topics around visualizing search graphs. In part two we spoke more about entities, python for SEO and winning over developers…
Here is a GIF of someone biking around the Google campus near the GooglePlex and the new Google offices. I found this the other day on Instagram and figured I’d share it here, since who doesn’t like
Other Great Search Threads:
- NameCheap 2021 Domain “Industry” Report, WebmasterWorld
- You’re looking at the page experience report – that doesn’t have anything to do with mobile indexing. It’s based on the chrome user-experience report data (crux)., John Mueller on Twitter
- Google map also show business name by translating in local language. Is this new feature added?? #googlebusinessprofile #updates @GoogleMyBiz @rustybrick https://t.co/qgldeDPeBm, khushal Bherwani on Twitter
- If you’re moving content from one domain to another, it sounds like passing the signals would be appropriate. If you’re just buying old domains and redirecting them, it doesn’t seem like the same thing., John Mueller on Twitter
- There are no specific character or pixel limits., John Mueller on Twitter
- You’d have to ask the sites that are making these graphs – I don’t know what they’re looking at. Regarding search itself, I expect that our teams will continue working hard to make it, John Mueller on Twitter
- The past year was a big one for development of tools to help us do a better job at SEO. I tested out a ton of new SEO tools. Here’s my top 10 (both free & paid) to use in 2022: Test & share with others, Brodie Clark on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
Search Features
Other Search
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Google Algorithm Update, Yandex Search Factors Leaked, ChatGPT Craze (Bing/Google), Bing Lastmod & More Yahoo Search

In this week’s recap, I covered the unconfirmed Google update that seemed to impact product review sites but maybe more on January 26th. Yandex had a huge leak, and SEOs and marketers dug through the search engine’s source code. Google’s answer to ChatGPT might be Apprentice Bard using LAMDA Sundar Pichai of Google basically confirmed this. Google’s John Mueller blasted some links sellers. Google Search Console updated the video indexing report. Google said to try to nofollow site credit links in your footer. Google said spammy links from porn sites should not be a priority. Google said if you redesign your site, the rankings make go “nuts.” Google Search Console verification does not impact your rankings. Google said firewalls and CDNs are the biggest reason for why your site is blocking crawling. Google updated its canonicalization docs in a big way. Google said don’t use relative paths in your canonicals. I posted the big Google webmaster report for Friday. Microsoft Bing said the lastmod field in your sitemap file is critical. The new BingBot might go 100% today. Google Ads announcements and news seemed to have slowed since late last year. Google reported earnings that showed their ad revenue was down 3.6% year over year. Yahoo Search is really going to be making a comeback, I have more evidence. And if you want to help sponsor those vlogs, go to patreon.com/barryschwartz. That was the search news this week at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Google’s Answer To OpenAI’s ChatGPT?

CNBC reported the other day that Google is working on its own AI chatbot named Apprentice Bard. Apprentice Bard is reportedly built on Google’s AI LaMDA language model stack and while Google is being more cautious with this rollout, Google is working on testing an AI bot in search.
CNBC wrote, “As a result of ChatGPT, the LaMDA team has been asked to prioritize working on a response to ChatGPT,” read one internal memo viewed by CNBC. “In the short term, it takes precedence over other projects,” the email continued, warning that some employees stop attending certain unrelated meetings.
“Apprentice Bard looks similar to ChatGPT: Employees can enter a question in a dialog box and get a text answer, then give feedback on the response. Based on several responses viewed by CNBC, Apprentice Bard’s answers can include recent events, a feature ChatGPT doesn’t have yet,” CNBC said. This makes sense, as Google can crawl the web in almost real-time and process that information faster than any other company.
The examples given by CNBC show that Google even picked up on the Google layoff news and was able to respond to questions about this. Whereas ChatGPT only has content from 2021 or earlier.
Also, CNBC said Google is working on designing an alternative search interface to support this chat feature. CNBC said, “One view showed the home search page offering five different prompts for potential questions placed directly under the main search bar, replacing the current “I’m feeling lucky” bar. It also showed a small chat logo inside the far right end of the search bar.” “When a question is entered, the search results show a grey bubble directly under the search bar, offering more human-like responses than typical search results. Directly beneath that, the page suggests several follow-up questions related to the first one. Under that, it shows typical search results, including links and headlines.”
Super interesting stuff and I suspect that if Google does release something, it will be a lot better than what we’ve been seeing so far, if that is even imaginable…
More: “One view showed the search page offering 5 different prompts for potential questions placed directly under the main search bar. It also showed a small chat logo inside the far right end of the search bar. The page suggests several follow-up questions related to the first.” pic.twitter.com/JOFWxlMTho
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) February 1, 2023
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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A New Googlebot Crawler From Google Named GoogleProducer

Google may be crawling the web with a new crawler, a new Googlebot, named GoogleProducer. This useragent is not listed on the official Google crawlers page but maybe it is too new to be listed yet?
Hernán Marsili spotted this and asked Google about this on Twitter. He said, “we are seeing a lot of traffic to publisher’s sites with a new user-agent ‘GoogleProducer; (+http://goo.gl/7y4SX) ‘. Our WAF is currently blocking it, but it’s origin is actually Google Proxy hosts. Is this legit traffic?”
That link goes to this page that 404s within the Google News Producer section.
As an FYI, Google Producer is part of Google News and Google Currents, I believe. This help document from Google says, “You will use Google Currents producer to manage your issues (e.g., pricing, description, etc.) for Google Play Magazines. If you’re participating in Google Currents, Producer will look familiar to you. You can manage both your edition(s) for Google Currents and your issues for Google Play Magazines through Producer. See our article on publisher account setup for the steps you need to take to fully set up your publisher account and magazines for Play. If you have any questions about using Producer for Google Currents, please see the Currents Producer Help Center.” Note, the Currents Producer Help Center redirects to the Google Publisher Center help center.
John Mueller of Google said he will look into it:
I’ll check – thanks for pinging.
— John Mueller is watching out for Google+ 🐀 (@JohnMu) February 1, 2023
I guess we will see what he says but until then, I do suspect this is a legit Googlebot crawler.
Update: This is old, an older one:
2011 on this thread?https://t.co/NTqpOhQYSl
— Pedro Dias (@pedrodias) February 2, 2023
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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