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

We are now over a week past the estimated time the Google November 2024 core update was expected to be done and it seems to still be causing a lot of ranking volatility in the Google Search results. The update was expected to be done two weeks after it first started rolling out and now we are three weeks and two from when it first launched.

Google announced that it has modernized and refreshed the emails that are sent out from Google Search Console.

Bing Search can now place a button under a search result snippet that triggers a site command to restrict the search results to only show results from that domain.

We knew Google’s web rendering service (WRS) does its own thing with caching but now a new post from Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt of Google said the “WRS caches everything for up to 30 days.” This is done to help “preserve the site’s crawl budget for other crawl tasks,” Google wrote.

Google has a newish way to search for events in specific regions.

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