Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Google has dropped support for job training structured data and rich results in Google Search. Google said based on its initial tests, the search company “found that it wasn’t useful for the ecosystem at scale.” Not useful. Google posted about this saying “We initially tested this markup with a group of site owners, and ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for the ecosystem at scale.” Google did not say how large its tests were but just said it did test this in Google Search

Digital marketing agency NP Digital announced today that it has acquired AnswerThePublic, a popular freemium keyword research tool. Terms of the deal were not revealed.

Google Search Console’s News performance report had a logging error which may have resulted in displaying a drop in impression and clicks from Google News. Google said this was just a reporting glitch and it had no real impact on how your site was ranking or serving in Google News

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Robert Scoble posted a bunch of items around what to expect from the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) that is happening Monday, June 6th. Robert said a bunch of things but specific to search he said “and a new search engine is coming too.”

Read about Google’s three-tiered plan for enterprise marketers in DV360 and Campaign Manager 360, including new ad formats and privacy-safe signals.

Google’s John Mueller was asked what are the timeframes for the data used when calculating quality metrics for the Google broad core updates. John said that there is a lot of “work that’s done well in advance” and “usually with data collected until then,” then being just before it rolls out.

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