Google offers more details on the change to featured snippets that is calling deduplication. The post Google Offers Guidance on Featured Snippets Update via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google is enhancing its Collections in Search feature, making it easy to revisit groups of similar pages. The post Google Makes it Easy to Revisit Similar Pages From Your Search History via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Gary Illyes from Google posted on Twitter a sarcastic GIF of what he said “Everyone’s reaction when low quality and spammy content is not indexed anymore.” I posted that GIF above, so you can see it, but here is the tweet:

Twitter’s latest feature draws inspriation from Instagram and Facebook, letting users react to direct messages with a simple emoji. The post Twitter Users Can Now React to Direct Messages With Emojis via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Posted by Matthew_Edgar When it comes to the forms your site visitors are using, you need to go beyond completions — it’s important to understand how people are interacting with them, where the strengths lie and what errors might be complicating the experience.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google’s ‘Dataset Search,’ first launched in September 2018, is officially out of beta with nearly 25 million datasets indexed. The post Google’s New Dataset Search Engine Comes Out of Beta via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

In November 2019 we saw Google testing removing the normal snippet from the Google search results when Google shows a featured snippet for that site/URL. Well after numerous tests, Google has launched this yesterday and is no longer showing a featured snippet and at the same time the same URL in the main web search results.

If you want to capitalize on this speciality search engine, make sure to add datasets schema where applicable.