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

Google is testing displaying question mark icons in the people also ask results. I think someone else shared this with me recently but I thought it was a bug, but now that a second person notified me of this, maybe it is not a bug but a real Google test

New Years Eve is just around the corner and Google’s special Doodle for New Year’s Eve 2020 is available for viewing. It is the holiday Doodle with an old fashioned bird-house clock with 2020 on it. There is also a little easter egg surprise in the search results that shoots confetti all of the search results page

Loren Baker of SEJ & Kevin Rowe of Purelinq will be discussing the use of the “black hat” and “white hat” terminology in the SEO world and whether it’s still relevant. – What does Black Hat SEO mean? – What is Black Hat linking?

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Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that passage indexing/rankings and the page experience update are “very different things.” This came about when Michel Fortin asked if the two might launch together.

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Despite the pandemic, Google was busy working on changes to its search ranking algorithm — here is a summary review of those changes through 2020. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

In the last Google Search Console training video series of the year, Daniel Waisberg of Google brought in a special guest, the Engineering lead for Search Console – Hillel Maoz. In this video they discuss a bit of what happens behind the scenes.