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 is testing search results with shop nearby links. Google Ads gains new sharable ad previews…

Google is testing adding a new rich result type to the search results snippet named “Shop nearby.” The shop nearby link will open the Google Business Profile of the business’s website.

Google announced a number of new Google Ads enhancements or updates to Performance Max campaigns, some we already covered and some are less search specific.

Google Search is testing replacing the spelling notification for “search instead for…” with “revert.” I mean, it is a weird one being that I am not sure “revert” is the right word for this but hey, Google loves to test things.

Google has this carousel that can pull in top products based on customer reviews in the Google Shopping graph. It is titled “Top products from customer reviews” and shows up in the search results for select queries.

Gareth Hoyle posted about this new game he and his company, along with others have spent about a year putting together. It is named SEO The Board Game and is a strategic game for 2 to 4 players where you play an SEO expert, purchase and optimize websites, build your digital empire, and compete for the title of top SEO kingpin.

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This is a programming note that Thursday and Friday are Simchat Torah and I will be offline the next two days. I will be offline on Thursday and Friday, October 24th and October 25th…

We are excited to announce that we are launching a new version of the MozBar SEO browser extension! Check out the upgrades, slick new interface, and functionality in this post.

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