Daily Search Forum Recap: October 14, 2021

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 Search seems to be rolling out the new knowledge panel design on desktop...

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Google Rolling Out New Knowledge Panel Design With Buttons At Top

After months of testing, it seems Google is now rolling out the new design for the knowledge panels where the buttons are at the top of the search results. We've seen this design on mobile for some time, but now it is also fully on desktop.

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Podcasts Google Knowledge Panels Go Live

Looks like Google has pushed out knowledge panels for podcasts the other day. Many SEOs are podcasters have noticed it over the past day or so.

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Google Search Tests Expandable Video Previews

Google is testing showing expandable video previews in the search results. When you hover your mouse over a video thumbnail in the Google search results, the video will expand and play a silent preview.

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Google: Video Games Are Not Valid Software Types For Software App Schema

Google has clarified in its software application schema help document that VideoGame is not a valid node type for Software Apps. If you want to use VideoGame, you can, but you must also include another supported type for your structured data for software apps to be supported.

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