Daily Search Forum Recap: February 23, 2024

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 is now paying Reddit for its content...

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Bing Search Yellow Opinion Label On News Stories

Bing Search now has these yellow "opinion" labels on news stories within its search results. The label is overlayed on the news story's image and really makes the story stand out from the others.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 22, 2024

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

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Google Fading In Text Of Search Result Snippets On Scroll

Google is testing fading in the text of the search result snippets as you scroll down to see more search results. The text is a light gray, and then it becomes a more solid black as you scroll toward that search result snippet.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 21, 2024

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...

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Google Ads Sitelink Unknown Eligibility Bug

Google Ads has an issue with some sitelink assets where it shows the sitelinks are eligible but "limited" and the reason says "unknown." Google's Ads Liaison said, "the team is aware of this issue and currently on it."

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Only 20% Of SEOs Think Search Volume Won't Change By 2026

The other day, Gartner, a respected research firm, predicted that "traditional search engine volume will drop 25%, with search marketing losing market share to AI chatbots and other virtual agents." So I asked SEOs what they think and only 20% of SEOs think search volume won't change by 2026.

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Google App Adds Toggle Between Search & Gemini

The popular Google app, the Google Search app, now has a toggle at the top to quickly switch between Google Search and Gemini (formerly Google Bard). It shows up at the top and is defaulted to Google Search with the super G logo but you can see the Gemini logo that you can tap on to switch to Gemini.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 20, 2024

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

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Google Search Can Wait On Customer Service Hold For You

Google Search is experimenting with a Pixel phone feature that will let you call a customer service line at a company and wait on hold until a real person answers the phone. This is currently a Search labs feature that will let you click a button in search to "request a call" from a "live representative."

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New Google Search Support For Product Variant Structured Data

Google announced this morning support for Product variant structured data. This new structured data supports three new properties; hasVariant, variesBy and productGroupID in order to handle most of the way e-commerce sites list product variants.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 19, 2024

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

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Google Ads To Prohibit Using Famous People Or Brands To Part With Money Or Information

Google Ads will update its unacceptable business practices portion of the misrepresentation policy in March 2024. The update says you cannot entice "users to part with money or information by impersonating or falsely implying affiliation with or endorsement by a public figure, brand, or organization."

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Google Search Tests Forums In Search Bar Menu

Google is testing a new menu item in its search bar. The new item is "Forums" and it filters the search results to forums, such as Reddit, Hacker News, and other forums on the internet.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 16, 2024

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 says again, what Google wants to rank well in search is what users like...

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Google Tests Left Aligned Logo In Knowledge Panel

Google seems to be testing aligning the logo to the left in some knowledge panels within the search results. Typically the logo would show up on the right top corner, but now Google is testing the logo at the left top corner.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 15, 2024

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. We have another unconfirmed Google search ranking update that touched down yesterday...

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Google Top Stories - New Stories Since You Last Searched

Google is testing a new top stories feature and label that tells you that there are new top stories available since the last time you searched for that query. There is a new label that reads "new" and says, "There are new results since your last search."

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Google Updates Canonical Docs Explaining Which Attributes Break The Canonicalization

Google has added a section to the use rel=canonical link annotations section of the canonical search documentation to clarify that rel=canonical annotations with certain attributes are not used for canonicalization.

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Google Search Console Launches User Interface Changes

Google Search Console has quietly launched some relatively small user interface changes. It seems like the filters and sorting boxes are now curved and more modern.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2024

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

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Google Business Profiles Disabling Third-Party Ordering Providers

Google has updated the Google Business Profiles requirements for ordering or delivery providers to require them to add instructions on how to remove that service from a Google local listing.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 13, 2024

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. Some recipe sites got hit hard in the Google search results this Sunday, right before the Super Bowl...

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Google Ads Generative AI For Automatically Created Assets Fully Live In English US/UK

Google announced that the use of generative AI for automatically created assets (ACA) is now fully live for the English language in the US and UK. Google initially announced AI use for ACA back at its Google Marketing Live event in May 2023, and now it is fully live.

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Google Ads Keyword List With Clickable Stars

Nate Louis noticed that clickable stars were placed next to the keyword list in his Google Ads advertiser console. He can click them to highlight them and unclick them to unhighlight them. He has never seen these before and doesn't know what clicking on them does outside of highlighting them in the list.

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