Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards at this time, via the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the internet.
Google spoke about crawling, methods to make it extra environment friendly and a few questions round it. No, Google doesn’t skip pages which might be costlier to crawl. Google Lens has this converse now to ask about this picture characteristic. Bing Search is testing opening searches and pagination in a brand new window. Google featured snippets can present emojis. Plus, I posted the weekly search engine optimisation video recap overlaying this weeks juicy information.
Search Engine Roundtable Tales:
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Monopoly Ruling, Ranking Volatility, Million Dollar Ad Bugs, Search Console Recommendations & More
This week, we lined the massive ruling that Google is formally a monopoly, a federal choose dominated. Google search rating volatility heated up the day after that ruling… -
Google Search Team On Crawling & Improvements To Crawling
Google posted a brand new “Search Off The File” podcast yesterday on the subject of crawling the place John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Gary Illyes spoke about how Google crawls, some concepts on learn how to make crawling extra environment friendly and a few misconceptions round crawl frequency and website high quality. -
Google: We Don’t Track How Expensive It Is To Crawl, Render, Index & Serve Pages
There was some confusion round how Google handles pages that is perhaps extra expensive for Google Search to crawl, render, index and serve – i.e. JavaScript pages. Google doesn’t have a financial finances per website, by way of it’ll spend $X of crawling finances in your website. -
Google Lens Rolling Out Speak Now To Ask About This Image
Google appears to be rolling out a brand new Google Lens characteristic that permits you to document together with your digicam and in addition converse together with your voice on prime of that video. Then Google Lens will match the video or picture together with your spoken textual content to present you a set of search outcomes or an AI Overview. -
Bing Search Tests Opening Searches In New Window From Home & Pagination Bar
Microsoft is testing a bizarre change to the Bing Search outcomes consumer expertise. Bing is testing that once you do a search from the house web page, that it opens the search ends in a brand new window, as a substitute of loading these outcomes on the identical tab you’re on. Bing can be testing opening a brand new window for once you click on to the following web page of the search outcomes. -
Google Featured Snippets With Emojis & Special Characters
It’s not day-after-day that you simply see a Google featured snippet with emojis and particular Unicode characters. Right here is an instance of 1 noticed by Nick Churick (hat tip Patrick Stox) that he posted on X. -
GooglePlex Outdoor Lounge Chairs
Right here is a photograph of the traditional Google outside lounge chairs you see on the GooglePlex, the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. These chairs are all lined up within the Google colours.
Different Nice Search Threads:
- An amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It’s gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It’s from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only id, Jason Kint on X
- Just noticed this “back to schools deal” banner that Google is adding to SERPs with back to school kids shopping intent. An expansion of the “shop deals” banner we see around major holiday and shopping events., Brian Freiesleben on X
- Meanwhile, Google Ads fully restored reporting – what a huge mess – story continuous, Barry Schwartz on X
- Thanks, I’ve passed it on to the team to look at more. When I search, I find the doc you mentioned easily at the top, as some of the others have commented. Why it’s not showing for you isn’t clear, but, Google SearchLiaison on X
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Cell & Voice
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