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
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...
Google launched the style recommendations with thumbs up and down buttons not long ago after testing it in January. Now Google is showing this thumbs up and down buttons in the product grid search results, so Google can see what you like or dislike and then show you more products that you do like.Brodie Clark spotted this and posted some examples on X, he wrote, "Google is now testing out a more personalized experience for organic product grid results on mobile."Here are some of his...
Recently, we covered some of Google's rationale for ranking forums like Reddit and Quora so well in the Discussion and Forums box for many queries. Just a few days ago, we covered how I was sad to see Google ranking some dangerous and potentially harmful forum threads for health-related queries. Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liason, posted comments on a LinkedIn post from Lily Ray defending the statement he made on this topic. I'll share them all here, because I am sure many of you did not...
Google this week updated its Search Central documentation to provide clearer guidance on the beta carousels feature.
Tech giant is protesting proposed law that would require large online platforms to pay ‘journalism usage fee’Google has temporarily blocked links from local news outlets in California from appearing in search results in response to the advancement of a bill that would require tech companies to pay publications for links that articles share. The change applies only to some people using Google in California, though it is not clear how many.The California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) would...
Over the past few weeks, Google's Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, has been replying to complaints about some examples of search results being not just low-quality but also potentially harmful and dangerous. The sad part to me is that a couple of years ago, this was not the case with the Google search results (for the most part).When I interviewed Hyung-Jin Kim, the Vice President of Google Search, at SMX a couple of years back, he told a touching story about this topic. He explained that a...
Google announced today it will cut some links to California-based news sites in its search results to prepare for future actions against the state's possibility of charging Google for news links.
In a recent video on the Google Search Central Youtube channel, Google engineer Gary Illyes provides a fascinating glimpse into the complex processes behind Google Search results.
Google's Ads Liaison Twitter account (@adsliaison) last month announced a change to the definition of top ads within Google Search.
Do you use Google Books to find books on certain topics? Or Google Scholar to dive into academic research? Here's something you should know: These sites, which enable users to "search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books" -- and search academic literature across any discipline -- have started indexing low-quality, AI-generated books that appear to be written by real, human authors.This troubling trend was first spotted by 404 Media, which used a simple trick to track down...
Google pushes its AI editing tools onto Google Photos users for free. Google will officially offer many of its AI editing tools to Google Photos users for free starting on May 15, with a gradual release.