Google Product Grid Results Are Organic & Are Huge

We've been seeing a lot of grid-like formats with products and shopping results. We know some are ads and some are organic. John Mueller of Google just added official Google representative confirmation that many of these are organic - if you don't trust that there is no ad label on them as evidence enough.

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Google Shopping Ads Carousel With Shaded Backgrounds

Google is using a gray shaded background color for some of the results within the Google Shopping Ads carousel. I was able to replicate this, where for some images, Google thinks a light gray background works better than a white background. This is not tiled, where every other result is shaded, it is based on some other algorithm, maybe the color of the photo of the product?

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GooglePlex Outdoor Play & Games

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Daily Search Forum Recap: June 28, 2022

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

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Google: Near Duplicate URLs With Canonical Still Can Lead To Wrong URL Ranking

There is an interesting thread on Reddit on a topic we touched on here several times, the topic of Google ranking the wrong version of the URL in Google Search. It all stems back to the URLs you want Google to rank being near duplicate to the URL Google ends up ranking.

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