SEARCHENGINES
Google Adds Shops Section To Mobile Search Results

Google has recently added a new section to the mobile search results named “Shops.” This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani on Twitter and we got confirmation from Google that this was indeed new at Search Engine Land yesterday.
Google said “we recently launched Shops, a new module available on mobile devices for select US-English shopping-related queries,” a Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land. “We launched this to help present more seller options to users on Search. This feature currently shows 3 shops and users can then expand to see up to 10 merchants depending on availability. The selection of results shown and their order are based on organic search ranking,” Google added.
I can see it myself for some queries, here is a screenshot:
Here are more screenshots:
Hi @rustybrick another example for same –
Search query – toolkit pic.twitter.com/INbPjqCoks
— khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) January 5, 2022
I guess it is nice of Google to highlight more stores in the search results!
Forum discussion at Twitter.
SEARCHENGINES
Google Discover Showing Author Names Over Site Name

Google Discover can now show the author name of a specific story instead of showing the site name under the story. I personally do not use Google Discover much but a couple of savvy Google Discover users noticed this over the weekend.
Jordan SEO spotted it first and posted this example on Twitter:
First time I see the author’s name appear in Google Discover cc @VorticonCmdr @glenngabe pic.twitter.com/sOvHwbMtaF
— Jordan SEO 📈 (@SEOctet) August 14, 2022
Then Glenn Gabe responded noticing it for a story that showed up in his feed as well, with his name instead of his site name. Here is what that looks like:
What do you prefer, the author name or the site name for articles in the Google Discover feed?
Why is Google showing the author’s name? That is hard to know but Google is always testing. Here are some theories:
Or maybe thanks to this new additional field, “jobTitle”? pic.twitter.com/ulWKumtv8D
— Jordan SEO 📈 (@SEOctet) August 14, 2022
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com