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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 13, 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.
Google Search Console added a new search appearance filter for “translated results” in the performance report. Google will add a new indexing report in Search Console for video page indexing. Google posted its I/O presentation on Google Search for site owners. Google launched a new popular destinations search carousel for Google Travel. Microsoft Bing has a new top rated tutors carousel that leads to Microsoft’s TakeLessons. And I posted the weekly SEO video recap – have a good weekend.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- New Video Page Indexing Report Coming To Google Search Console
At Google I/O yesterday, Google announced a new report coming to Google Search Console named the video page indexing report. This report will be available under the index section in Search Console and will show you a summary of all the video pages Google found while crawling and indexing your web site. - New Translated Results Search Appearance Filter Added to Google Search Console Performance Report
Google has quietly added a new search appearance filter to the performance report in Google Search Console. The new search appearance filter is named “translated results” and it shows you how many searchers accessed your site’s content when Google translates it in the search results. - Google I/O Session: Google Search For Site Owners
One of the few sessions at Google I/O on Google Search was presented by John Mueller, who you all know, and also Dikla Cohen, a Technical Solutions Consultant at Google. This covers some of the more basics around Google Search Console, some of the newer features released – all of which you should all know about if you read this site daily. - Bing Top Rated Tutors Carousel Through Microsoft TakeLessons
Bing Search has a new carousel for “top rated tutors” for keyword searches such as [piano], [makeup], [guitar] and so on. This brings up a special search carousel that pulls data from TakeLessons, a Microsoft owned property. - Google Search Adds Popular Destinations Carousel
Google had added a “popular destinations” search related carousel to the search results for some queries. Valentin Pletzer spotted this the other day and I can see it as well on both mobile and desktop search. - Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Mother’s Day Algorithm Update, Google I/O News, Horrid SEO Advice In Google’s Courses, New Ad Format & More
Google had a big unconfirmed search ranking algorithm update around Mother’s Day. Also, this week was Google I/O and Google had a ton of announcements specific to search… - Official NBA Game Ball At Google Office
Google’s Satyajeet Salgar posted a photo of an official NBA game ball he found sitting in a meeting room at the Google / YouTube offices. It is in a glass mounted case, so I assume it is worth somethi
Other Great Search Threads:
- Google has added “other notable metrics” to PageSpeed Insights today, Aviel Anders Fahl on Twitter
- Appreciate concerns raised about quality of our results, don’t discount those & we’ll keep working to improve. But to state the results “objectively” suck without any stats? That doesn’t feel, well, objective. I, Danny Sullivan on Twitter
- How does Barry Schwartz write so much content? Where does he learn it from?, Reddit
- How many possible robots meta tag variations (excluding numbers) are understood by Google?, John Mueller on Twitter
- I wish other SEOs would stop using “crawl budget” as an excuse for websites not doing well for , Adam Gent on Twitter
- That’s objectively wrong. Seriously, I’ll pass along the concerns about UX. Me, I’m a web page person. All I tend to want is a list of web pages. But there are lots of people who want more than that., Danny Sullivan on Twitter
Search Engine Land Stories:
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
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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