Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2024
Nov 20, 2024
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
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Google Site Reputation Abuse Policy Expands To First Party Involvement Or Content Oversight
Nov 20, 2024
Google has updated its site reputation abuse policy to expand what is included in abuse. It now includes third-party content that has first-party involvement or content oversight. Google also dropped a mention of the starkly different content algorithm but made no mention that site reputation abuse is enforced algorithmically—so it must still be only through manual actions.
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Google Lens For In-Store Searches
Nov 20, 2024
Google announced new shopping features through Google Lens to help with in-store shopping and local shopping. Google said, "Google Lens can quickly show you product insights tailored to the store you're in. Just snap a photo to find product information, similar products in-stock, whether a store's price is competitive and shopper reviews."
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Google Makes It Clear On Site Wide & Page Level Ranking Signals
Nov 20, 2024
Google has updated its guide to Google Search ranking systems to mention at the top of the page that it uses both page-level and site-wide signals for search rankings. There was a debate on this after the Google creator summit about Google possibly saying they only have page level signals, so this may clear things up a bit.
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OpenAI ChatGPT's Search Marketing Share
Nov 20, 2024
Is OpenAI, its ChatGPT service, taking market share from Google? Well, maybe. Rand Fishkin of Sparktoro posted his assumptions based on a mix of data from SimilarWeb and Datos that says ChatGPT's current market share is 4.33% - that is from October 2024 data.
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Bing Video Search Testing Categorizing Videos
Nov 20, 2024
Microsoft is testing categorizing the videos within its Bing video search results. Bing's video search interface can show at the top a featured video for the query, then trending videos related to the query, then short videos, then a related category of videos, followed by the normal video thumbnails.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2024
Nov 19, 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 Search Console finally removed the page experience report. Google is testing removing some EU news publishers from some EU regions in Google Search, News and Discover. Google Ads has in store and online tabs. Google Discover and AI Overviews show YouTube videos a lot. Google people also ask is testing removing the more results button...
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Google Search Console Drops Page Experience Report
Nov 19, 2024
Over a year and a half ago, Google told us they would be dropping the page experience report from Google Search Console in the "coming months." Well, it took many "coming months" for it to happen and now the page experience report is no longer available within Google Search Console.
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Google Testing Removing EU-based News Publishers From Search
Nov 19, 2024
Google has begun testing removing EU-based news publishers in Google News, Google Search, and Google Discover for 1% of users in Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain (not France). Google is doing this to provide data on the impact this will make for these publishers if this would be rolled out to 100% of users.
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Google Ads In Store & Online Tab & Near You Ads
Nov 19, 2024
Google Ads has this newish "in store" and "online" tab sponsored ads interface for its search ads, where you can tab between nearby stores and online stores that have what you are searching for. Plus a newish list view of "near you" stores that have the products you want.
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