Tag Archives: Search

Google’s John Mueller: “Search Is Never Guaranteed”

Google’s John Mueller: “Search Is Never Guaranteed”

Google Search Advocate John Mueller said, “search is never guaranteed,” in response to a site owner asking why their content isn’t indexed. In the r/TechSEO forum on Reddit, a user is dissatisfied that a website re-publishing identical content is getting indexed faster. The Reddit user posts a thread asking if they can use the Indexing API to brute force their way into Google’s index. Mueller shoots that idea down, saying the Indexing API is reserved for specific types of content,… Source link

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Gaming Google: Oil firms use search ads to greenwash, study says

Gaming Google: Oil firms use search ads to greenwash, study says

Oil giants spent $24 million on Google search ads over two years Google pledged not to make money from climate disinformation Study says many ads on Google twisted facts on climate change LOS ANGELES, Nov 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Google is selling oil firms valuable digital real estate that they use to downplay their role in climate change, despite the search engine giant pledging it would stop taking money for ads that counter the scientific consensus on global warming, a new report… Source link

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Google Lens is now prominently featured on the Google search page

? Anonymous U@6 18 minutes ago Yet their reverse search doesn’t even come anywhere close to Yandex reverse search. Tandex is using some magic for it reverse search algorithms. J Johnny Rebel nrN 33 minutes ago i don’t like it because earlier when you uploaded a picture to Google Images or did Search By Image in Google Chrome, you would get same picture in different resolutions, now it’s just a Google Lens which shows you similar looking… Source link

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U.S. strikes deal with Google over search warrant data loss

U.S. strikes deal with Google over search warrant data loss

WASHINGTON, Oct 25 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it reached an agreement with Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google resolving a dispute with the search engine giant over the loss of data responsive to a 2016 search warrant. The government said it was a “first-of-its-kind resolution” that would result in Google reforming “its legal process compliance program to ensure timely and complete responses to legal process such as subpoenas and search warrants.” “The department is… Source link

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Google Reveals Top Search Trends For Halloween 2022

Google Reveals Top Search Trends For Halloween 2022

Google reveals the latest data on top Halloween costume searches in the US in an update to the Halloween Frightgeist website. Halloween Frightgeist is a website powered by Google Trends designed to highlight popular costume ideas. Google’s data can be helpful to marketers who work in related verticals and are looking to get high-value products in front of last-minute shoppers. With two weeks left until Halloween, it’s not too late for one last marketing push before the season ends. Data… Source link

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7 tips to turn Google’s Search Essentials into strategy

7 tips to turn Google’s Search Essentials into strategy

Google’s Webmaster Guidelines have a new name – Google Search Essentials. The new guidelines tell us what is important to focus on when it comes to performing well in Google search. Much of what moved the needle in terms of SEO years ago is no longer effective.  What matters in SEO today are things like E-A-T, core update quality questions, product review questions, and whether content is helpful. So what will give you the best chance… Source link

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Google Updates Search Display Formats to Provide More Context to Users

Google Updates Search Display Formats to Provide More Context to Users

This shouldn’t have any real impact on SEO, or Google usage more broadly, but Google has announced a couple of changes to the display of Search results, in order to provide more clarity and transparency within its listings. First off, Google’s adding site names to search results on mobile, so that users can more easily identify the website that’s associated with each result at a glance. As you can see in these examples, now, you’ll see the website name and URL for each result,… Source link

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Powers to fight ‘foreign interference’ in search engine results to be included in Online Safety Bill

Powers to fight ‘foreign interference’ in search engine results to be included in Online Safety Bill

Powers to fight disinformation spread by Russian propaganda search engines are to be included in the Online Safety Bill, i can reveal. The Government is set to amend the Bill following revelations about the website Yandex, known as Russia’s Google, which pumps out pro-Kremlin search results on issues ranging from the war in Ukraine to news items criticising the West. The listings are available to online users in the UK. On Friday,i revealed that Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg and Trade… Source link

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