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Google removes sitelinks search box documentation, marking full deprecation of the legacy search feature.

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’s November 2024 core update did not yet finish and we passed the two weeks timeline…

Happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday! The Google November 2024 core update is not done rolling out yet – it should have been. And yes, we are still seeing heated volatility throughout this week, even today.

Google told us that the Sitelinks search box would stop working within Google Search on November 21st. Well, it finally stopped working a week later on November 27th, in the afternoon.

Google has launched a new report form in Google Maps to “report business conduct.” Specifically, this form is to report businesses that offer incentives in exchange for reviews, or pressuring people to leave reviews.

Google has updated its Google Business Profiles guidelines to say that businesses associated with products or services that require the customer to be a certain minimum age are not permitted as service-area businesses without a storefront.

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Google’s John Mueller said he was generally in favor to the idea of giving prior notice to receiving a manual action, but he said “it’s challenging.” John then explains that Google’s search algorithm try to reward sites, while also negating any benefit any spam may have – but not demote. But that may have dodged the specific question provided.