Daily Search Forum Recap: May 18, 2022

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

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John Mueller Of Google Can See Search Spam In Languages He Does Not Speak

Google's John Mueller is able to see and identify content search related spam without even speaking the language. Supposedly this is not a magical power or even that hard to do by someone who was trained to catch spam, but nevertheless, he is able to spot spammy content in languages he does not understand.

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Google Hotel Results Using Reviews For Things To Do & Review Summaries

Google for years has been doing super fancy search features based on reviews left in Google Maps. Here are some more features that may or may not be new, but you should be aware of in any event. Specifically, Google using hotel reviews to build lists of things to do and also to show quick summaries of those hotels.

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Google Search Console Performance Reports Now Shows Education Q&A Rich Results

Last week, we covered how Google now supports Education Q&A structured data as Google rich results in Google Search. Well now some folks who have implemented it are seeing Education Q&A show up in the search performance reports in Google Search Console.

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Google Search News Box News Link Now Clickable

The Google Search news box has a header named "News" for some queries. That header was never clickable until just recently. Now, you can click on the header and it will take you into the Google News search engine.

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