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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 23, 2024
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.
Microsoft Bing was offline for a while today, taking down third-party sites like ChatGPT Search, DuckDuckGo and even its ad products. Google is testing special treatments for Reddit results in search. Google is testing from sources across the web without images. Google is testing replacing related search with people also search for. Google Ads has a referral program, not sure if that is new. Google updated its robots.txt parser code in GitHub.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
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Google Tests Special Reddit Search Result Snippet Interface?
Google may be testing a special search result snippet interface for Reddit search results. In this test, Google seems to be showing the number of upvotes and the number of comments on the Reddit thread. -
Bing Search Is Down; Takes Down DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, ChatGPT Search & More
Bing Search is currently down and/or having massive latency issues. The Bing home page loads a gray dull background, the Bing search results mostly loads errors pages and if it loads search results, those results are sparse. Plus, Bing’s APIs are down, so Microsoft Copilot and other services are down, including partners like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, ChatGPT Search are all down. -
Google Search: Sources Across The Web Without Images
The from sources across the web Google Search feature is testing showing results without image thumbnails. Google has reportedly been testing the imageless version since January of this year. -
Google Tests Replacing Related Searches With People Also Search For?
Google may be testing replacing the “related searches” box with the “people also search for” box. The two are functionally not that different, from what I can tell. -
Google Ads Referral / Affiliate Program
Did you know Google Ads has a referral or affiliate program. Where you can refer Google Ads a new advertiser and you will earn $250 in ad credits in Google Ads. I am not sure if this is new, but Anthony Higman thinks it might be new. -
Google Robots.txt Parser Updated In GitHub
Google has updated its open source robots.txt parser code on GitHub the other day. Gary Illyes from Google pushed the update yesterday morning to the repository there. -
Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, With PPCers At Google Marketing Live
Here is a photo from Google Marketing Live on Tuesday where you can see Google’s Ads Liaison, Ginny Marvin, with a number of well-respected paid search professionals, aka PPCers.
Other Great Search Threads:
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Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Search Features
Other Search
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Google Ranking Volatility Spikes, Search Console Bug, Search App Stalled, Google Ads News & Business Profile Suspensions
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Another week and more Google Search ranking volatility, in fact, it has not calmed but we saw even more spikes in the middle of this week. Google Search Console may have a bug with product snippets reporting. Google Search App stopped working Saturday night for a few hours. Google said again, Core Web Vitals are not as important as many think. Google Indexing API may be causing some spammers some trouble, or maybe it is just normal indexing selection. Google updated its crawler documentation with the effects and snippets. Google suspended many Google Business Profiles this week. Google updated its documentation around review restrictions. A new study on Google AI Overviews shows links go to information intent pages. Google Search will label images as AI-generated, edited with software or taken with a camera. Google Ads added negative keywords for PMax, new insights and reports, and so much more. Google is testing sticky headers for the new layout. Google is testing expanded discussions and forums layouts. Bing is testing snippets that scroll. Google asked on social if you use Gemini to do SEO and then removed it. Google posted a bunch of the DOJ trail exhibits, files, documents and responses. That was the search news this week at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 2024
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 is putting review and menu descriptions under photos in local listings. Google is placing blue map pins with location names in the search result snippets. Google Ads had enhanced conversion coverage data. Bing is testing a searches you may like widget. Bing Places has a new support form. And I posted the weekly SEO video recap.
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Ranking Volatility Spikes, Search Console Bug, Search App Stalled, Google Ads News & Business Profile Suspensions
Another week and more Google Search ranking volatility, in fact, it has not calmed but we saw even more spikes in the middle of this week. Google Search Console may have a bug with product snippets reporting. Google… -
Google Blue Map Pin & City Name On Search Results Snippets
Google is now showing a blue map pin with a city name under some of the search result snippets. This seems to be rolling out now and seems to be new. It shows you if a specific website is near you or in a specific city, I think. -
Google Reviews & Menu Descriptions Under Local Photos
Google is now showing reviews and menu descriptions when browsing photos on a Google Maps, Google Business Profiles listing. So when you scroll through photos, Google will show this content under the photo for some listings. -
Google Ads Gains New Options On Enhanced Conversion Coverage Data Page
Google has added a set of new filters and a website only report in the Enhanced Conversion Coverage data page/report. This can be found in the Google Ads console under the Enhanced Conversion Coverage Data page. -
New Bing Places Support Contact Form
Microsoft may have updated its Bing Places support contact us page. The new page requires you to authenticate yourself, then pick your region, before filling out the form. The form can be reached over here. -
Bing Searches You Might Like Box
Microsoft is testing new sections in the Bing Search results named searches you might like. This can show up as a box with search refinements between a set of search results or as trending searches on the right hand side of the search results. -
Google Neon Sign – Rock Stage
Here is a spot at the Google office in Zurich, Switzerland where bands can play. There is this neon Google logo sign in the background, with musical instruments on the stage.
Other Great Search Threads:
- “Helpful”, to not helpful, to helpful, to not helpful… all in the space of a year. This is so confusing, and Google really need to sort this out because there isn’t a lot independent sites left anymore, and I know many, Brandon Saltalamacchia on X
- First time I’ve seen Gemini sending a good amount of traffic to one of my recent blog posts, Bill Hartzer on X
- Getting bombarded by flags for “Unreliable Claims” anytime we try to post keywords from Ads Editor, Greg on X
- More about AI Overview tracking in GSC: I’ve explained before that it’s a maddening adventure trying to track AI Overviews in GSC. Well, here’s another maddening example. The site ranks in the AI overview (which would show up as posi, Glenn Gabe on X
- We have just updated our marketing landing page with a nice overview of some of Bing’s main features like the emerging Bing generative search powered by LLMs, as well as Images and Image Creation, News, Travel, Maps, Shopping, Safe Se, Jordi Ribas on X
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Analytics
Industry & Business
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
- Android Auto adds NACS charger support for EVs, 9to5Google
- Booking.com’s price curbs on hotels may hinder competition, EU top court says, Reuters
- Here’s how Google Maps incident reports will work on Android Auto, 9to5Google
- Maps, AI, Open Buildings, Geospatial analysis, dataset, Google Blog
- New Policies & Shady Review Schemes: Is Google Helping or Hurting?, BrightLocal
- Startup Founded by Ex-Google Exec to Use AI to Forecast Weather, Bloomberg
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Other Search
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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 19, 2024
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.
The Google Search ranking volatility continues, with another big swing yesterday, September 18th. Google is mass suspending Google Business Profiles in some industries and segments. Google again said stop worrying too much about Core Web Vitals. Google is showing videos in the top insights products section. A new Google AI Overview study shows links mostly go to informational intent pages.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
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Google Search Ranking Volatility Continue With Big Movement Again 9/18
To be honest, the Google Search ranking volatility has not cooled at all since the pre-launch of the Google August 2024 core update. But something happened yesterday which caused a bit more of a swing of things in the rankings at Google Search. -
Google Suspending Many Google Business Profiles
I am seeing a flood of complaints in the Google Business Profiles forums where businesses are complaining that their Google Business Profiles were suspended. Supposedly, Google is mass disabling Business Profiles in specific sets of industries or niches. -
Google: Core Web Vitals Aren’t As Important As Some People Might Think
Google again has downplayed the importance of Core Web Vitals as a Google Search ranking signal. Google’s Martin Splitt said in a video yesterday, “also core web vitals aren’t as important as some people might think.” He added, “they are they are not irrelevant though but do not over focus on these things.” -
Google Product Results Top Insights With YouTube Videos
Google is now showing videos, I guess from YouTube but I suspect it can support other video sites, within the top insights section of the product detail results. Previously, Google would just show review content but now Google added video content to this section. -
Study: 96% Of Google AI Overviews Links Go To Informational Intent Pages
Did you know that 96% of the links Google displays and shows in the AI Overviews link to content that has informational intent? A new study from seoClarity says this is the case, after analyzing over 1 million keywords in its data set. -
Google’s Doogler Day
Did you know Google has a special day for the Google Dogs, Dooglers. It is called Doogler Day and here is a photo of Doogler Day 2024.
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Analytics
Industry & Business
- Exclusive: Google offered to sell part of ad tech business, not enough for EU publishers, sources say, Reuters
- ‘Lazy’ staff going home early has caused Google to ‘suffer’, says ex-boss, GB News
- Google was too scared to launch its LLMs before OpenAI, Android Headlines
- Google’s ad monopoly is harming journalism with sky-high fees for news publishers, antitrust trial hears, Daily Mail Online
- Microsoft Aggressively Pushes Edge and Rewards on Chrome users in Incognito Mode, Windows Report
- U.S. v. Google: Ad tech antitrust trial by numbers — so far, Digiday
Links & Content Marketing
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
SEO
PPC
Search Features
Other Search
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