One great thing about being a young Gen X’er: There was no social media during my junior high and high school years.  Young millennials weren’t so lucky. They chronicled their adolescence in excruciating detail on Myspace, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, every half-formed thought and laundry-detergent-eating stunt preserved forever.

You may see a new message in Google search that reads “it looks like there aren’t any great matches for your search.” Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google announced some big news – Google Shopping is now free.

Yesterday afternoon I reported on Search Engine Land that Google seemed to be having issues indexing new content. This was maybe for an hour or two, where if you published new content, Google would not index or show it in the search results. Based on my tracking, this lasted about two hours and Google fixed whatever issue there was.

Google seems to be testing a new interface for how to results, maybe just with recipes or maybe more wide spread. Brian Freiesleben shared this recipe result that shows the old and new interface side by side.

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

Over a million transactions shows reviews influence consumers the most. The post Consumers Value Reviews Over Credentials via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Over a million transactions shows reviews influence consumers the most. The post Research Shows Reviews Strongly Influence Sales via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that Google tries to filter out the automated queries from rank checking tools and similar tools in its performance reports within Google Search Console. John said “We do filter out a ton of these, but I imagine you’ll always end up with some of the requests in your stats.”