Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2022

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

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Google Asks For More Search Terms When The Query Is Too Short & Generic

Did you know that sometimes Google will ask you to provide more search terms in your query when the search conducted was super short and generic? Here is a screenshot from Punit showing he searched for [news] and Google asked for the searcher to add more search terms to the query.

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Bing Moves Explore More On Left Side

Microsoft Bing has moved the "explore more" feature from under the image carousel snippet to the left hand side of that snippet. We first noticed this explore more feature in March, but I guess the placement took up too much space then. I do like this new layout over the older layout.

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Spammers Ruined Bing's Anonymous Sitemap Submissions, Microsoft Deprecated It

On Friday, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft announced Bing has deprecated the anonymous sitemap submission method. Bing will no longer accept Sitemap submissions through HTTP requests.

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Google: Cross Linking Language/Country Versions Won't Lead To A Negative Ranking Impact

Google's John Mueller was asked if there can be some sort of negative impact when it comes to cross linking your language or country versions of your pages. In which John said "I can't think of any reason why cross-linking your language/country versions of pages would have a negative impact."

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