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Danny Goodwin Joins Search Engine Land

As you all know, I have been with Search Engine Land and SMX since the company was founded and the company has been through many changes over the past dozen years or so. This week, Search Engine Land hired seasoned search marketing writer and editor Danny Goodwin.
Danny has been in the search industry since 2007 and has a ton of experience in the publishing world specific to search. He was with Search Engine Watch after I left that organization and then he joined Search Engine Journal in 2017. He then decided to leave Search Engine Journal in 2021 and now is with Search Engine Land in 2022.
I’ve written about Danny Goodwin before and said “he literally has been in the industry, covering Google, Bing, and other search news for years. He has helped the industry mature and get smarter through not just his own writings but improving the writings of others. I believe, Search Engine Journal has given him the ability to truly shine and what he has done so far is awesome and I am looking forward to seeing what he does with it in the future.” I also said “the only bad thing about Danny is that he is technically a competitor,” well, that is no longer true.
Now I personally get to work side by side with Danny Goodwin at Search Engine Land and I am super excited about it.
I wanted to share some of the public reaction to the news. There are reactions (which are private) in his Facebook post about the news, on LinkedIn and on Twitter. I’ll share some of the reaction below:
Welcome tot he team, will be fun working with you!
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) January 18, 2022
Woohoo, congratulations!
— 🐄 John 🐄 (@JohnMu) January 18, 2022
Congrats, Danny!
— Pedro Dias (@pedrodias) January 19, 2022
Congrats Danny! 👏🎉😎 you’re going to rock it
— Aleyda Solis 👩🏻💻 (@aleyda) January 18, 2022
Remember just a few days ago, when the amazing @MrDannyGoodwin told us on Facebook that he had quit his job and didn’t know what to do? That he had no plans, and we got worried? 😇 Well, he went out to buy milk, and landed this job over at @sengineland on the way back. Nailed it!
— Trond Lyngbø (@TrondLyngbo) January 18, 2022
Wow! Congrats!
— Mordy Oberstein (@MordyOberstein) January 18, 2022
Congratulations, Danny!!
— Marcus Tandler ✰ (@mediadonis) January 19, 2022
Congrats! They are lucky to have you.
— Tony N. Wright (@tonynwright) January 18, 2022
Whoo-hoo!!!!! Congratulations Danny!!
— BrianHarnish (@BrianHarnish) January 18, 2022
Congratulations Danny! Anyone you work for is lucky to have you! All the best! 😺☕️
— Roger Montti (@martinibuster) January 19, 2022
Woohoo! This is amazing news — congratulations!
— Heather Lloyd-Martin (@heatherlloyd) January 18, 2022
Just read your LI post so now I have a better understanding. Looking forward to what you’re bringing to SEL.
— Mark Alves (@markalves) January 18, 2022
Congrats @MrDannyGoodwin excited to see the upcoming content!
— Brett Bodofsky (@BrettBodofsky) January 18, 2022
They are exceptionally lucky to have you.
— Julie Joyce (@JulieJoyce) January 19, 2022
Congrats!
— Chris Silver Smith (@si1very) January 18, 2022
Way to go! pic.twitter.com/9AtTOgTtgH
— Molly Youngblood (@mygeigermeister) January 18, 2022
Congrats Danny. And masses of luck with the new job! 🍾
— Andrew ‘Optimisey’ (@Optimisey) January 18, 2022
Congrats!!
— Eli Schwartz (@5le) January 18, 2022
WOW! ❤️ Congratulations Danny🥳🥳 pic.twitter.com/CWbdQuVzPa
— Himani Kankaria (@himani_kankaria) January 19, 2022
That is just a sampling of some of the reaction about this news from the search community.
I am excited to be working with Danny at Search Engine Land!
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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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