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Google Search Developer Docs Gain AI Generated Help Features

A week ago Monday, March 18th, I noticed Google's search developer documentation had generative AI features to help you find the answers to your question. This is in the form of an improved search, summary of the page content, a chat feature and more. I was told this was rolled out on some developer docs earlier in the year.

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Google Local Reviews Reactions Notice

In November 2023 we started to see Google allow reactions on local photos and some reviews. Well, it seems to be rolling out more widely now.

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Google Analytics Real Time Data Lagging Today

There are countless complaints across the forums and social media that Google Analytics real time data is lagging and not reporting accurately. It seems like those complaints are legit after checking a number of sites.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 26, 2024

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

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Google Adds 3D Models Markup To Product Structured Data For Linking

Google has added new 3D models markup support to the product structured data documentation so that you can connect, associate or link your products to the appropriate 3D model.

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Mikhail Parakhin Steps Down As Head Of Bing Search & Microsoft Advertising

Mikhail Parakhin, the head of Bing Search and Microsoft Advertising, is stepping down from that role as Parakhin "decided to explore new roles." We've quoted Mikhail Parakhin here countless times over the past couple of years, to hear that he is leaving the role makes me super sad. His transparency and willingness to listen to the community was amazing.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 25, 2024

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Google Tests SGE AI Overviews In The Wild (Subset Of US Users)

On Friday, Google began to test SGE-based AI overviews in the real Google search results. That means you may see AI overview snapshot answers in Google search results without being opted into the Google search labs experiment. This is being tested on a small subset of searchers based in the U.S., Google told me.

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Google Tests Products & Product Sites Search Bar Filter Tabs

Google is now testing placing "product sites" as its own search bar filter tab in the search results. Also, Google is testing replacing "Shopping" with "Products" in that search bar.

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How To Remove A Subdomain Of A Subdomain Via Google Search Console

Let's say you have a subdomain of a subdomain, such as sub.sub.domain.tld, how do you remove sub.sub.domain.tld from Google while keeping sub.domain.tld in the Google search results. The answer is to verify the sub.sub.domain.tld property directly in Search Console and remove just that property.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 22, 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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Bing Search Refine Your Search On Chat / Copilot

Bing Search has a new refine your search box that sends searchers from Bing Search to Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing Chat). You can check off the topics below and then click on the blue "chat" button to be taken into Copilot.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 21, 2024

Again, Images Not Showing For Some Google Search Result Snippets

Google is once again investigating issues with recipe images and other images not showing for some sites within the Google Search results. We reported on several issues with recipe sites several weeks ago and it seems to be happening again for some of these sites.

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Report: Sites Hit By March 2024 Pure Spam Manual Actions Not Recovering

The days after the Google March 2024 spam and core updates were released, Google issued tons of manual actions. They were mostly pure spam manual actions that resulted in all or parts of a website being deindexed for violating Google's search spam policies, as Google calls it. Most, if not all, of those sites that were hit have not recovered yet.

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Google Maps Bug Places Business With Different Addresses In Same Map Pin

Joy Hawkins shared a very unusual bug with Google Maps where it places businesses with different addresses in the same location in the same map pin area. It just drops these map pins in one address when they are not located by that map pin.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 20, 2024

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Google Search Tests More Product Image Snippet Variations

We've covered product images within the search result snippets many times but here are even more variations where Google is showing up to several images across the snippet in the search results, but sometimes as few as three.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 19, 2024

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Google: Canonicalizing From WWW to Non-WWW Won't Impact Your Search Rankings

Google's John Mueller said that if your website is www.domain.com and then you decide to canonicalize it to the non-www, so it goes to domain.com from www.domain.com - that change would not have a big impact on your rankings. He wrote on Reddit, "This won't cause problems with search visibility / rankings / indexing: when the canonical URL switches, it just switches."

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Google Changes: Liz Reid New Head Of Search, Pandu Nayak Steps Down As Search Quality & Rankings Lead

Google announced some executive changes last night with Liz Reid being named the new head of Google Search. Pandu Nayak stepped down as the lead of search quality and ranking. Cathy Edwards stepped down as the lead Google Apps, Google News, Google Discover and other ecosystem efforts. Finally, Cheenu Venkatachary has stepped up to lead our quality and ranking teams, in place of Pandu Nayak.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 18, 2024

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EU Searchers Complaining About Google Maps Features Changes Related To DMA

We've been covering many of the Google Maps changes, many related to what searchers see in Europe related to the required DMA changes Google has to make. But searchers are complaining about several of these changes in the Google forums.

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Google Showing Fewer Sitelinks Within Search

Both Semrush and SimilarWeb's RankRanger tool are reporting that Google is showing fewer sitelinks within the Google Search results. In fact, it seemed to have dropped over 10 percentage points. The drop started on Thursday, March 14th.

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 2024

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