Daily Search Forum Recap: December 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 said its ads platform is not impacted or affected by the Log4j 2 vulnerability, but if you use APIs...

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Google Search Testing Empty Design Search Box

It looks like Google is testing a more empty style for its search bar. The search bar has no apparent box to enter your query after your query is in the box (that you don't exactly see). It also changes some of the icons to gray without color.

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Google Ads Not Affected By Log4j 2 Vulnerability

Over the past few days you may have heard about Log4j and a major vulnerability that allowed hackers to attack unpatched Apache servers - if not, click here to learn more. Google has posted that Google Ads and Google Marketing Platform are not using versions of Log4j affected by the CVE-2021-44228 vulnerability.

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Bing Tests Translating Your Query

Microsoft Bing seems to be testing a feature to translate your query. Frank Sandtmann sent me a screenshot of Bing in Germany where it offers the option to translate his English query to German.

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Google Search Console Review Snippets Report May Show Fewer Objects

Google said that as of December 14th and onwards that the reviews snippet rich results report in Google Search Console may show fewer review objects. This is because Google is no longer showing top-level rating objects in this report.

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