Microsoft: 20% Of Bing Results Offer Direct Answers

In a Financial Times article from a few weeks ago, that mostly covered Google's MUM, there was a bit about Microsoft Bing in there. It had a super interesting stat that reads "the ability to extract answers from text has already enabled Bing to offer direct answers to 20 per cent of the queries it gets, according to Ribas."

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Google: URL Parameters Don't Make Links Unnatural

Google's John Mueller had to say that links that have UTM parameters, or tracking parameter, added on to the end of the URL, does not make them unnatural links. I often wonder where these myths come from, but he had to explain that those links aren't by default considered unnatural links.

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Google NYC Catering Staff Back To Work?

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Winning the Page Speed Race: How to Turn Your Clunker of a Website Into a Race Car

Winning the page speed race requires the same things as winning a car race: making sure that your vehicle is as lightweight as possible, as powerful as possible, and that you navigate the racetrack as efficiently as possible.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 7, 2021

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

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You Can Add Google Posts Directly From Google Search

Back in June Google said you will be able to add Google Posts directly from the Google search results page. I suspect that went live shortly after the announcement on mobile and maybe desktop, but maybe it didn't and I missed it. It may or may not be new but I wanted to cover that you can now add Google Posts from Google Search.

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