Tag Archives: Algorithm

Google has a new review algorithm that the search company says it better anf faster at taking down fake reviews from local listings in Google Search and Google Maps. “In 2023, this new algorithm helped us take down 45% more fake reviews than the year before,” Google announced. Google receives a lot of contributions to its Google Maps and local listings, this includes reviews, photos, updates to listings and more. In fact, Google said it receives “around 20 million contributions per… Source link

Google search increasingly looks like it just isn’t working the way it used to.  The search engine that has become a 21st century staple in virtually everyone’s lives, used billions of times a day, is struggling with the unintended consequences of a recent update. Basically, it’s all spammed up. Welcome to web search’s junk mail era.  “It’s the worst quality results on Google I’ve seen in my 14-year career,” says Lily Ray, senior director of search engine… Source link

Google updated their search snippet documentation to clarify what influences Google’s algorithm for choosing what to display as the snippet in the search results. This change may represent a big change in how meta descriptions are written and how content is optimized. Google Search Results Snippets A webpage displayed in the search engine results pages (SERPs) consists of a title, a URL breadcrumb and a one to two sentence description of what the webpage is about. That last part is called… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Video: Google Algorithm Update, Yandex Search Factors Leaked, ChatGPT Craze (Bing/Google), Bing Lastmod & More Yahoo Search  Search Engine Roundtable Source link

If you’ve been following my coverage here on confirmed Google search algorithm updates over the years, you would see that the dates Google gives to the start of an update and, more often, the completion of an update are not always so exact. Like with the December 2022 helpful content update, Google said it kind of started on December 5th but said they didn’t post about it until the day after because it wasn’t really noticeable until December 6th. Also, when updates are completed, Google… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google’s Algorithm Goes Woke  National Review Source link

Google confirms an algorithm update targeted at fighting spam is rolling out to search results worldwide and in all languages. Google estimates the October 2022 spam update will take several days to roll out. Exact details about spam updates are rarely provided, except in cases where they target specific types of spam, such as last year’s link spam update. Google regularly rolls out spam updates to maintain the quality of its search results. Spam updates are designed to improve Google’s… Source link

Google announced a Core Algorithm Update on September 12, 2022. The response from the search community is generally positive although some corners of the Internet were noticeably muted. Core Algorithm Update A core algorithm update is announced by Google when changes are made that are large enough to be felt by publishers and search marketers. The Official Google Search Central account tweeted the update announcement Today we released the September 2022 core update. We’ll update our ranking… Source link

The forthcoming update continues Google’s efforts to show more helpful, in-depth reviews based on first-hand expertise in search results. Google’s timing for the next product review update aligns with the conclusion of the just-announced helpful content update. When you add in July’s product review update, that’s three confirmed Google algorithm changes in a month. Google appears to be on a mission to purge the front page of low-value content, with an acute focus on content people… Source link

Ten years have passed since Google introduced the Penguin algorithm and took a stronger stance on manipulative link-building practices. The algorithm has had a number of updates and has become a real-time part of the core Google algorithm, and as a result, penalties have become less common, but still exist both in partial and site-wide format.  Screenshot by author, May 2022 For the most part, Google claims to ignore a lot of poor-quality links online, but is still alert and monitoring for… Source link