Happy Fourth of July Search Industry

Wishing you all a happy Happy Fourth of July, as you can see, this site is all dressed up for the day (on desktop) and Google has their special animated Doodle. I'd embed the Bing theme but I was once threatened with a lawsuit for doing that (not by Microsoft but one of those image legal companies).

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Google Analytics Overview By Hour Report Not Counting Data

For the past few hours, the Google Analytics (Universal Analytics 3) home view where it shows the "audience overview" is not counting. You need to filter the results to show today and you will see that around 2/3pm ET it stopped counting. This is not impacting all accounts, most of mine work but it is impacting some.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 1, 2022

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

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Google Auto Knowledge Panel Adds Green Font For Hybrid & Electric Vehicles

Google Search has a knowledge panel for automobile and car related searches. If you search for a vehicle where there is an electric and/or hybrid option available, Google will say "hybrid available" and put that font in green.

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Google Shopping Search Discover Filter For Black, Women, Veteran & Latino Owned Businesses

Google has recently added a new "Discover" filter to the Google Shopping search side bar to filter shopping results by Black-owned, Latino-owned, Veteran-owned or Women-owned businesses. I think this was added at least a few months ago when Google added the smaller stores filter but I am not 100% sure on timing.

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