New Yahoo Search Experience May Launch Soon
The new Yahoo Search experience may launch as soon as a few months from now. Brian Provost, the Senior VP and General Manager of Yahoo Search, said the new Yahoo Search experience will be launching in the very early days of 2024.
Google Search Quality Raters Guidelines Updated With Fewer Pages
Google has updated the Google search quality raters guidelines and it is now only 168 pages, down from 176 pages – so it takes less time to read. I scanned through the changes and I did not see any massive changes like with the December 15, 2022 update.
Google Business Profiles Verification Method: Upload Photo At Customer Location
Google Business Profiles is adding a verification method for some categories of businesses to make it easier for them to verify their business with Google. This one, you can upload a picture of your vehicle in the local area where you meet your custom…
Danny Sullivan Posts His Google Search Presentation On X
Last night, Danny Sullivan, the Google Search Liaison, shared the presentation he gave at brightonSEO online on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. The presentation covers Google Search results not being perfect, how Google update aim to improve…
Daily Search Forum Recap: November 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.
This newsletter is a lot bigger than the average…
Google Hidden Gems Ranking Algorithm Update
Google announced the hidden gems ranking system has been rolling out. This hidden gems update helps promote content deep within forum posts, social media, and blog posts that Google Search thinks provide authentic content based on personal insights and…
Google To Personalize Search Results To Your Previous Searches
Google also announced that later this year, in the US, Google will make it easier for you to find your favorite sites by showing you sites you view more often, more often in the search results. Plus, Google will make the search results more personalize…
Google Search Adds Follow Feature
Google is rolling out a new search feature to let you follow topics. You can click on a follow button and Google will not only show you more of those topics in your Discover feed but also show you more of that topic in Google Search.
Google Search Labs Adds Notes To Search Results
Google Search is testing a new notes feature where you can add your own notes to the search results and also see the notes others have left on that search result. This is a Search Labs experiment that you need to opt into and launched in the US and Ind…
New Google Search Console Robots.txt Report Replaced Robots.txt Tester Tool
Google announced a new robots.txt report within Google Search Console and at the same time said it will sunset the old robots.txt tester tool. The new tool shows which robots.txt files Google found for the top 20 hosts on your site, the last time they…
Bing Chat Now Named Copilot
Microsoft has rebranded Bing Chat to Copilot. “Beginning today, Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise are becoming Copilot, with commercial data protection enforced when any eligible user is signed in with Microsoft Entra ID,” they wrote yesterday.
Google Adds New Course Carousel Info & Search Console Reports
Google announced it has expanded its courses rich results so you can now provide new data such as pricing, educational level, ratings, and length with structured data. Google said this data can appear in a new carousel feature within Google Search.
Google SGE Gift Ideas, Generate Images For Apparel & Men’s Virtual Try On
Google announced some new Search Generative Experience (SGE) features for shopping, including gift ideas, generating images for apparel purposes, and more virtual try-on features.
Search Quality Raters Guidelines update
As of November 16, Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines.
As a reminder, these guidelines are what are used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance
of our various search r…
Google Sues Over Fraudulent & Weaponized DMCA Takedown Requests
Google has filed a lawsuit against two men who allegedly used Google’s DMCA process “aimed at removing hundreds of thousands of their competitors’ website URLs from Google Search results,” the lawsuit writes.
Bing Image Search Hard To See Ad Labels
We covered a number of the tests Microsoft Bing Search has been trying around its ad labels, mostly around it making the ad label harder and harder to tell if it is an ad or not. Now, in Bing’s image search, Bing is doing the same.
Google Safety Crawler Google Help Documentation
Google has updated its help documentation specific to Google Crawlers and added the Google Safety crawler to the list of special case crawlers. This crawler is not new but Google decided to add it because they “received many questions” over the past ye…
Google Tests Northeast Arrow By Sitelinks
Google is testing placing a northeast arrow symbol by the sitelinks in the Google Search results. We have seen arrows before with sitelinks but not the northeast error symbol.
Google Testing SGE Ads – Sponsored Content – You May Also Like
Google seems to be testing a new ad format for the Search Generative Experience named “you may also like.” These seem like content ads, where Google shows sponsored content, articles, in a carousel, below the follow-up section after asking SGE follow u…
Google: Avoid Including Prices Of Flights In Your Title Tags
Google has updated its title links help documentation to say it is best to avoid including flight price information in title elements. Google said this is because flight prices rapidly change and if you show one price to a searcher and then they click …