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Waymo LLC Chief Executive John Krafcik said he is stepping down from his role, bringing an end to the former auto executive’s more than five-year tenure leading Google parent Alphabet Inc.’s autonomous-vehicle unit. The company said Friday that it is promoting its chief technology and operating officers, Dmitri Dolgov and Tekedra Mawakana, to lead a decade-old effort to make self-driving cars a reality. They will share the title of co-chief executive. After… Source link

Search Advocate John Mueller stresses that Google is most concerned with expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T) when ranking content that deals with health & finance. This topic is discussed at length during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on March 26. Ritu Nagarkoti, who does SEO for a medical ecommerce site, asks Mueller for advice on tactics that can be used to increase traffic and visibility. Mueller says a medical ecommerce store likely falls into the… Source link

Google’s John Mueller goes over three possible reasons why a website’s structured data is not generating rich results in search. This topic is discussed in detail during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on February 26. Stefan Pioso, global SEO lead for Amazon Music, joins the hangout to ask Mueller about breadcrumb structured data. Pioso is experiencing difficulty getting breadcrumbs to display in search results. It’s noted that Search Console is picking up on the breadcrumb… Source link

Former U.S Olympics women’s gymnastics head coach John Geddert died by suicide Thursday. Geddert, 63, died hours after he was charged with 24 crimes, including sexual assault, racketeering and human trafficking. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel confirmed Geddert’s death and said, “This is a tragic end to a tragic story for everyone involved.” Geddert was expected to turn himself in at the Eaton County Sheriff’s Department at 2:15 p.m. Eastern, but did not show up, according to the Detroit… Source link

John Wall is returning to D.C. on Monday for the first time since the Washington Wizards traded him to the Houston Rockets on Dec. 2. The trade happened more than two months ago, and Wall still has a lot of feelings about the Wizards deciding to move on and swap him for Russell Westbrook. Wall recently sat down for an extensive interview with The Athletic’s Fred Katz to talk about those feelings, and he revealed how things went down with the trade, how he told his now-former teammate Bradley… Source link

Google’s John Mueller offers insight into why traffic from Google Discover is likely to be inconsistent from one day to another. This topic is discussed during the Google Search Central SEO hangout recorded on February 5. A question is submitted from a site owner concerned about their referral traffic from Google Discover. They say it fluctuates wildly despite no significant changes being made to the site. Further, the site’s traffic from search results is growing even while traffic from… Source link

Reuters Arians opens up on decision to take swing at Brady One year ago at this time, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers knew they were at a quarterback crossroads. With former No. 1 overall pick Jameis Winston ending his fifth season with the NFL’s first-ever 30-30 season (33 touchdown passes, and NFL-high 30 interceptions) and the 7-9 Bucs missing the playoffs for the 12th straight season, it was time for a major move. And according to head coach Bruce Arians, once six-time Super Bowl champion Tom… Source link

Google’s John Mueller shares SEO best practices to follow when cleaning up, and recovering from, site hacks. Mueller provided this advice on Reddit in response to a thread from a site owner dealing with thousands of hacker-injected web pages. The site owner begins by asking whether it’s best to 404 or 410 the hacked pages, to which Mueller replies: “It doesn’t matter. The different is mostly theoretical.” In a follow-up comment the site owner asks if there’s anything else they… Source link

ATLANTA — The Brooklyn Nets were a few seconds away from staving off a young Atlanta Hawks squad on the road inside of State Farm Arena on Wednesday night. With four seconds remaining in overtime, James Harden was at the charity stripe and Hawks star point guard Trae Young was positioned behind him staring into space in deep thought. He looked as if he was itching for a couple of do-overs. The rising Hawks had fought valiantly throughout and led for much of the contest. They had their… Source link

Google’s John Mueller says it’s common for broad core algorithm updates to impact Discover in addition to web search results. Google sees Discover as part of search results, rather than a separate component. Since Discover is part of search it uses a number of the same quality algorithms, Muller says. That means changes to Google’s web search algorithm will impact Discover. Or, as Mueller puts it, updates to Google’s search algorithm “commonly” impact Discover. Mueller’s statement… Source link