Google’s John Mueller advises site owners not to expect every web story they publish to get displayed in Discover. Google Discover has its own web stories carousel, which was added last October, but only select content makes its way in. The addition of a web stories carousel lead some people to assume publishing one would automatically lead to visibility in Google Discover. That’s at least true of a site owner who submitted a question answered by Mueller during the Google Search Central SEO… Source link
Read More »Google Search Console Changes Core Web Vitals Reporting
Google Search Console is changing how Core Web Vitals are measured and reported on, which is likely to be a positive thing for site owners. Going forward, the metrics defining the boundaries for largest contentful paint (LCP), first input delay (FID), and cumulative layout shift (CLS) are now defined as <= (less than or equal to). Previously the boundaries for each of the Core Web Vitals was defined as < (less than). That meant the Google Search Console report would only show a “good”… Source link
Read More »Microsoft Edge for Windows 10 is getting web widgets support and more – WindowsLatest
Microsoft Edge, which is one of the best browsers for Windows, is getting three new features in the next big update. Microsoft appears to be testing a new web widgets feature, Chrome’s tabs search and extension menu for the browser. Widgets have been around for a long time on Android and it looks like Windows 10 will also get support for widgets via Microsoft Edge. The Redmond firm is currently testing news + weather widget that will keep the latest headlines at your… Source link
Read More »JioPages, the Made-In-India Swadeshi web browser, three more Indian languages including Odia | Odisha Breaking News | Odisha News | Latest Odisha News
Bhubaneswar: JioPages, the Made-In-India Swadeshi web browser, has added three more Indian languages including Odia, Assamese, and Punjabi along with earlier eight Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali. JioPages has introduced several new features including the option to browse and read in 3 more regional languages like Odia, Assamese and Punjabli in addition to the earlier eight languages available on the… Source link
Read More »All Core Web Vitals Must Be Met For Ranking Boost
All three Core Web Vitals benchmarks must be met in order to qualify for the ranking signal boost rolling out this May, says Google’s John Mueller. This topic came up right at the start of the latest Google Search Central SEO office-hours on January 29. A question is asked regarding how much it matters if one of the Core Web Vitals is below Google’s requirements when the other two are met. And does it matter if Google’s testing tools shows one of the Web Vitals in the yellow rather than… Source link
Read More »Google Warns Against Using Web Stories Teasers
Google published a blog post (and a video) with a guideline statement meant to discourage using the Web Stories format for the purpose of traffic acquisition. The article and the video note that there are growing amount of articles recommending the use of Web Stories as a teaser, a way to encourage visitors to click through and visit the website. The video notes: “One set of advice that might seem pragmatic at first but will almost certainly backfire. By just building teaser web stories as a… Source link
Read More »Latest Report on Semantic Knowledge Graphing Market 2020 Global Industry Type, Size, Key Players like Microsoft, Yandex, LinkedIn, Google, Franz, Semantic Web Company, Baidu, Wolfram Alpha
“A study report titled as ”Global Semantic Knowledge Graphing Market” report is detailed analysis published by IMR Research to offer a comprehensive study over the Semantic Knowledge Graphing Market with the help of dynamics, development drivers, challenges, opportunities, threats, limitations, etc. The report also contains cost trends, mergers & acquisitions, key suppliers of products and economic fluctuations. Prime purpose of the report is to help the client know the Semantic… Source link
Read More »Google, Heroic Web Balloon Leaps, And The Folly Of The Corporate Tax
“It’s the leap, not the look, that generates crucial information.” – George Gilder It was recently announced that Google’s GOOG parent company Alphabet GOOGL intends to wind down its Loon project. The Wall Street Journal’s Matt Grossman and Sarah Needleman described the latter as an endeavor to bring internet connectivity to “billions of people in communities where traditional ground-based infrastructure was too expensive or too difficult to install.” The… Source link
Read More »Google Closes Loon, Its Plan to Use Balloons for Web Access
Google’s parent company is winding down a project that used highflying balloons to provide internet access in hard-to-reach regions of the world, as it retreats from some of the moonshot projects championed by its founders. The project, known as Loon, started in 2011 and had its first public launch in New Zealand in 2013. It sought to connect billions of people in communities where traditional ground-based infrastructure was too expensive or too difficult to install. But… Source link
Read More »Google May Expand Roll Out of Web Stories if More Sites Use Them
Google’s John Mueller says Web Stories may be rolled out to search results in additional countries if more sites start publishing them. Mueller states in the Google Search Central live stream from January 15 that this applies to all search features. A site owners writes in asking Mueller if there’s any information about Web Stories coming to search results in other countries. Web Stories are currently supported in search results in the United States, India, and Brazil. The site owner wants… Source link
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