Daily Search Forum Recap: March 17, 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.

Bing laid out when to use each mode of Bing Chat...

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Google Tests Search & Local Snippet Result Blend

Google may be testing a new search result snippet that blends a typical search result snippet with a local snippet result. This one has the favicon, sitename, URL, title and image but it removed the description portion and replaced it with local features, like map, directions, call and hours.

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Duane Forrester Acquires New Bing Mug From Fabrice Canel

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 16, 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's March 2023 core update started to roll out yesterday...

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Microsoft Advertising Broad Match Modifier Now Use Broad Match Instead Of Phrase Match On Bing

Microsoft Advertising's broad match modifier keywords are now being served as broad match keywords instead of phrase match on Bing Search. This is effective as of yesterday, March 15, 2023.

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2006: Googlebots Playing Soccer At The GooglePlex

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 15, 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.

Microsoft Bing has been using GPT-4 for several weeks now...

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Google Local Listing "Similar To" Showing Similar Restaurants

Google may show similar businesses or restaurants in the local business listing of a competing business or restaurant. This "similar to" section may show up based on your previous search or visit history.

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Google Brazil G Logo Sign Is Hypnotic

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 14, 2023

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YouTube Home Page Not Ranking Normally In Google Search

When you search for [youtube] in Google Search, currently, the YouTube home page is not ranking. You get Wikipedia, the YouTube Android app on Google Play, the iOS app on Apple.com, the YouTube blog and others but not youtube.com.

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Berthier Ribeiro-Neto Keynote At Google Search Central Live Brazil

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 13, 2023

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Google: Less Common Languages Aren't Considered Low Quality Content

Google's John Mueller said lesser-used or known languages published on the web are not considered low-quality content just because they are lesser known. He said on Mastodon "good content is good content" no matter what language it is written in.

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Google Business Profile Verification Steps Asking For Better Business Bureau Link

Google, during some of the verification workflow with your Google Business Profile may ask for your BBB, Better Business Bureau, listing page. Google is asking to provide a link to your company information the Better Business Bureau.

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Bing Search Featured Answers Might Be Replaced By Bing Chat Answers

Mikhail Parakhin, the CEO of Microsoft Bing, said on Twitter that Bing may replace the top answers, featured, and knowledge answers they use today on Bing Search with the Bing Chat answers. "Yep, they use old technology and crowdsourcing, we will replace them ASAP," Mikhail wrote on Twitter.

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YouTube Movie Director Clapper Boards At Google Madrid

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 10, 2023

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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Feb Product Review Update Done, New Google Desktop Search Design, Discover & Helpful Content Update, Bard & Bing Chat And More�

It's time for the SEO video recap; in this episode, I talk about how the February 2023 Google product reviews update finished rolling out on March 7th. I spoke about more flutters we saw this...

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Google's Cherry, Lizzi and Daniel Holding Crawley

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 9, 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 Trends launched a new design with links to publishers. Bing Chat can show answer cards...

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Google Sitename, Favicon & Sponsored Label Live On Desktop (Not Just Mobile)

Google has made the sitename, favicon and sponsored label live on all desktop searches, like it did with mobile searches last October. To be clear, we saw google testing this on desktop in November and gradually increasing the test to more and more searchers but as of yesterday, it is now fully live on desktop too.

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Google: Page Size Is Not A Ranking Factor

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter, "Page size is not a ranking factor." Meaning Google does not have anything specific signal that says page sizes of X to Y get a ranking boost or decline.

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Google Baby Shark Band - Cute

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Daily Search Forum Recap: March 8, 2023

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