Google Video Search YouTube Channel Label/Icon

I am not sure if this is new because when I search for videos, I use YouTube directly. But in Google Video search, Google will label YouTube channel landing pages with a play button and without a timestamp because the link takes you to the channel and not to a specific video.

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SEOs Want Featured Snippet & Indexing Coverage API In Google Search Console

A recent poll on Twitter by Brodie Clark shows that SEOs really do want both a featured snippets filter in the performance reports in Google Search Console and also an index coverage API. The poll also has a number of other requests but those are by far the most requested because those were specifically called out.

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Google Search Displays Larger Images Again On Desktop Results

Google Search is testing displaying much larger images again in the desktop search results. Here is a comparison of the normal image thumbnails in the desktop search results compared to the larger images in the desktop search results.

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Google's 2021 Web Spam Report: Hello Google SpamBrain

Google has published its annual web spam report and in that report, Google has named its machine learning based systems for spam identification with its own name - SpamBrain. SpamBrain is a new name but the technology, the AI, is from 2018, so SpamBrain is technically not new.

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Google Meeting Room Named "More Cowbells" - Cowbells Hanging From Ceiling

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