Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards at the moment, by means of the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the internet.
Saturday evening, Google had a significant search bug with its Google Android app. I posted a bunch of assets across the US vs Google monopoly trial. Google up to date its crawler documentation in an enormous method. Google posted new native evaluate restrictions and enforcements. Google is asking how you’ll use Gemini and AI for search engine optimization. Google is testing a current posts carousel in Google Search.
Search Engine Roundtable Tales:
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Google Search App Stopped Working Saturday Night
The Google Search App stopped working final evening (Saturday evening) for just a few hours. Google was fast to repair it in the course of the evening however by then, lots of, if not, 1000’s of complaints flooded the assist boards and social media. -
Google Updates Google Crawlers & Fetchers Docs With Affects & Snippets
Google has fully reorganized its crawlers and user-triggered fetchers documentation. It was all on one web page and now it’s in a number of pages. Many of the adjustments had been simply shifting content material round however Google did add sections for what product every crawler impacts, and added a robots.txt snippet for every crawler to show methods to use the person agent tokens. -
Google Reviews Restrictions For Business Profile Policy Violations
Google has posted a brand new doc about the way in which Google might apply restrictions to your Google Enterprise Profiles over evaluate or different coverage violations. Within the doc, Google wrote that it takes “take pretend and/or incentivized critiques and scores on companies very critically.” -
Google US DOJ Trial Exhibit Files, Documents & Responses
As lots of you already know, Google is now in courtroom over its monopoly ruling by the Division of Justice earlier than the courtroom guidelines on the treatment for such a ruling. The ruling might not come for a yr or so, and Google will probably be in courtroom for a while. -
Google Search Tests Recent Posts Carousel
Google Search is testing a brand new current posts carousel within the desktop and cellular search outcomes. This carousel can present YouTube movies, TikTok movies, Reddit or different “hidden gems” of types. -
Google Asks On Social If You Will Use Gemini AI For SEO
In one of many extra disassociated social posts Google has made shortly, Google’s Small Enterprise account posted a ballot asking if you’ll use Gemini, Google’s AI fashions, to assist along with your search engine optimization, to assist enhance your search rankings. -
Sheds Inside The Google
Google likes to place outside issues, inside its workplace. Listed here are outside sheds which can be contained in the Google London workplace. It appears they’re makes use of as coat rooms, known as cloakrooms?
Different Nice Search Threads:
- I found out today what happens when google deletes a vertical you’re using | NAP, Categories, Dashboard Data, Native Search Discussion board
- The Digital Advertising Alliance has new standards for CTV, using its “Ad Choices” opt-out framework. Ad Choices has been a near-total failure and it’s effectively a fiction. Most consumers don’t understand AdChoices (the DAA, Greg Sterling on X
- This is a friendly reminder to make sure automatic asset creation is turned off for Google search ad campagins, Nate Louis on X
- This is not new. A social security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) may be required to complete verification. This information will be deleted and will not be stored after comple, AdsLiaison on X
- Heads-up: There’s been a lot of chatter about crazy swings in rankings AFTER the August core update. I am now picking up some wild reversals, surges, and drops post-August core update. And a lot of that seems tied to the tremors I re, Glenn Gabe on X
- More about forums, hidden gems, and recent adjustments: Here’s another example of a forum that surged with the hidden gems update in the fall of 2023, but has seen adjustments in the spring of 2024 (right after the March core update ende, Glenn Gabe on X
Search Engine Land Tales:
Different Nice Search Tales:
Business & Enterprise
- DOJ vs. Google, Day Four: Behind The Scenes On The Fraught Rollout Of Unified Pricing Rules, AdExchanger
- EU break-up order to Google unlikely for now, sources say, Reuters
- Header Bidding Was Decimated, Top Trade Desk Exec Testifies at Google Trial, AdWeek
- How Google altered a deal with publishers who couldn’t say no, The Verge
- Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI, The Atlantic
- Democratic Senators Urge US DOJ To Investigate Google’s AI Overviews, Corridor Evaluation
- Even Facebook Couldn’t Compete With Google, Bloomberg
- Sam Altman told OpenAI staff the company’s non-profit corporate structure will change next year, Fortune
- Data centers strain power grids. Should tech firms pay for upgrades?, Washington Publish
- Google Dodged Jury in Antitrust Trial With a Check, Enterprise Insider
- Google sheds its nice guy poise as the legal heat dials up, Digiday
Hyperlinks & Content material Advertising and marketing
Native & Maps
Cell & Voice
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