Google: Relevancy & Core Updates Factors Are More Than Just Text On A Page

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that when it comes to Google understanding and ranking documents, Google looks at more than just text on a page. He aimed this comment at a question around core updates and a site being hit by a core update.

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Google Search Console Performance Report Updated For Google News - Impression Changes

Google has made some changes to the Google Search Console performance report for Google News where your impressions may drop. Google said this is just a reporting change and the drop in impression doesn't reflect any ranking changes but rather how Google measures and tracks impressions.

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Google Zurich Trains

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Google: Googlebot Not Crawling Over HTTP/3 Yet

Google's John Mueller confirmed that Googlebot is not yet crawling over HTTP/3 yet. He said if you do implement HTTP/3 for your site, it doesn't mean it won't benefit your users and thus possibly your core web vitals metrics. But Googlebot won't crawl over it yet.

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Google Search Efforts On Inclusive Language

Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt had two special guests on their podcast show this week to talk about how Google approaches inclusive language in search - a topic we briefly covered only once before over here. The two guests were Zineb Ait Bahajji and Bruno Cartoni who work on this area at Google.

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