This week, we covered that the Google March 2024 core update is still rolling out 38 days later, but we saw more volatility this week. Just a reminder that the Google helpful content update no longer exists. Gary Illyes from
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Since before last year's holiday season, we have been seeing a "Shop All Deals" banner-like ad in the Google Search results for e-commerce and other queries. Boyd Norwood from nozzle.io looked at their data and found that this banner shows up 40-50% of the time over the last four or so months.He looked at 3,760 keywords, although, I am not sure if those keywords are more e-commerce related or not.This is what that banner looks like:Boyd posted a video walk through of his data over here if you...
What did thousands of Israelis type into Google’s search engine during the tense hours of the Iranian attack overnight Motzei Shabbos? Ynet reviewed the data and found that they were searching for “Tehillim” and “Tikkun HaKlali.” Already on Motzei Shabbos, in the hours ahead of the impending attack, there was an increase in the search […]
Sundar Pichai believes Google can provide AI-generated answers while also helping users navigate to websites for information.
ENTERPRISE, Ala (WDHN) --Authorities in Coffee County are halting a search for the remains of Ayanna Nneka Smith, a 26-year-old woman investigators believed was murdered in 2017. District Attorney James Tarbox and Enterprise Police tell WDHN that no remains were found as of Friday afternoon, and authorities are suspending the search but will pick it []
Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, confirmed that the search company is not closing the site command search operator. He said this after there were some complaints about the operator not working properly.Sullivan said on X, "we aren't closing site: search."A site command restricts the search results to a specific site. For example, in a world where Google did not show Reddit results for every query, and in a world where you want to see results from Reddit, you can do a site:reddit.com...
Google is once again testing a larger font size in the search box in the mobile search results. We saw this back in 2021 with the mobile search box, also in early 2022 with the desktop search box and then several other times over the years.This new one was spotted by Brodie Clark, he posted these screenshots on X - I made them into a GIF so you can see it:Here is the normal font:Here is the larger font:Forum discussion at X.
The Japan Fair Trade Commission is preparing to formally advise Google to change its advertising practices, after an investigation found it imposed anti-competitive restrictions through a partnership with Yahoo Japan, now a subsidiary of Line, Kyodo News reported.
According to a new report by Nikkei Asia, Japanese authorities are poised to toughen their antitrust regulations, posing a significant challenge to incumbents in the mobile market. The publication revealed that penalties aimed at curbing monopolistic practices will see a substantial increase, with fines more than tripled compared to currentRead Entire Article
Mihai Aperghis (@mihaiaperghis), an SEO we reference here from time to time, is also a Google Product Expert and attended the Google Search Central Unconference the other week. He has written this blog post and I am posting it here as a super rare guest post on this site. Why? (1) Mihai rocks and (2) this site is about community and Product Experts are the essence of the Google community. I (Barry) personally was unable to attend due to a conflict. Note: Mihai did not ask for a link or a...
Score a Google Pixel Watch (WiFi) for just $199.99 at Amazon, down from $279.99, or snag the LTE version for $249.99, down from $329.99, as of April 5.