Google Irvine Office's Eat/Play Area

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 21, 2023

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Theories On Why The Google Tracking Tools Show Calm Volatility & Weather

If you've been following my Google helpful content update volatility story, you will notice that the Google tracking tools are showing very little volatility when the SEO chatter is super heated. Generally when there is a lot of SEO chatter, the aggregate tools show heated volatility - but not with this helpful content update.

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Google Maps User Contributed Policy Fake Engagement & Personal Information Updated

Google has made two updates to its prohibited and restricted content policy for Google Maps user-contributed content. The impacted sections are the fake engagement and personal information sections. Here is what was added.

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Talk Like A Pirate Day Event At GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 20, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

It's been about six days now since the Google helpful content update started rolling out, it's been a weird one...

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Google Site Names Issues Continue For News Tab?

Last week we reported that the Google site names issues, according to Google, has massively dropped off, after the last big upgrade to site names in Google Search. Well, that might not be the case for the Google news tab.

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Google Bikes On Google Wall

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 19, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google Search can now double-check the responses given by Google Bard...

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Google Search Can Now Check Bard's Answers

Google Bard now has deeper integration with Google Search, where you can use Google Search to double-check the responses Google Bard provides. Google will then tell you if Google Search found similar content to the Bard responses or found content that differs from the Bard responses.

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Some Local SEOs Reporting Google Business Profile Emails Not Being Received

Some local SEOs are reporting that they are not receiving emails from Google Business Profiles. They are not getting notified via email when they are being added to a Google Business Profile to access that profile, they are not getting notices like suspensions or review emails and so forth.

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Google Ads UA3 To Google Analytics 4 Conversion Mapping Causes Confusion

Google Ads has begun converting some of its conversion metrics from Universal Analytics 3 to Google Analytics 4 (UA3 to GA4) and it caught some advertisers off guard, despite numerous notices that this will eventually happen.

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Yusuf Mehdi & Mikhail Parakhin New Roles At Microsoft With Panos Panay's Departure

Microsoft's chief product officer Panos Panay is leaving the company and with that there were some internal leadership changes. Including Yusuf Mehdi and Mikhail Parakhin who are both super involved with Bing have newish roles.

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NASA Astronaut Suit At Google London Office

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 16, 2023

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Bing Tests Lock Icon In Search Results For Secure Websites

Bing is testing showing a lock icon in the Bing Search results for snippets from secure websites. Previously, Bing tested secure site labels and HTTPS labels in those positions but now Bing is testing showing a lock icon.

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Google Search Tests European Union Energy Labels On Products

Google is testing displaying the European Union energy labels or icons on some product search results. The energy efficiency of the appliance is rated in terms of a set of energy efficiency classes from A to G on the label, A being the most energy efficient, G the least efficient.

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Renegade Dalek Working At Google

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 15, 2023

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Google September 2023 Helpful Content Update Rolling Out With Improved Classifier

Last night, Google began to roll out an update to the Helpful content system - the Google September 2023 Helpful Content Update. What is new is not the part about finding hidden gems (that will come later) but a new "improved classifier."

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Google: Site Name Issues Massively Dropped Since Last Algorithm Update

Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, said on X that the number of issues and complaints posted in the forums about site names being wrong in Google search has "massively dropped" since the last Google site names update in July.

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Google Bring Your Pup To Work Day

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 14, 2023

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Google Search Products Overlay With Zoomable Product Images

Google Search now zooms in on product images when you are previewing a specific from on the right-hand panel. All you need to do is hover your mouse cursor over the product image.

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Google FAQ Rich Results Now Only Displayed For Authoritative Sites

A month ago, Google told us that FAQ rich results in the Google search results will be shown for only authoritative sites but we waited over a month and nothing changed. That was until yesterday when FAQs in the Google search results are now barely showing up in the search results anymore.

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