Daily Search Forum Recap: February 17, 2022

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



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Some Recent Weird Google Search Interface Bugs

Over the past couple of days, I've seen a few recent complaints about weird interface bugs in Google Search. To be honest, I know some of these are browser extension related and thus not a Google bug, but an extension changing the Google Search interface. But I found them interesting and wanted to share them - in case you see them yourself.


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Google Quickly Processing Discover & Google News Manual Actions

A couple of weeks ago we reported that Google was sending out its first batch of manual actions (Google penalties) to news publications for Google News and Google Discover policy violations. Well, I am happy to report that Google is processing and even removing some of those manual actions already.


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Not New: 15% Of Search Queries On Google Are Still New

Here is a not new piece of data, 15% of the searches Google sees each day are new. Google shared this stat, again, on Twitter the other day saying "Fun fact: 15% of all Google searches have never been searched before."


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