Gary Illyes of Google spent a nice amount of time talking in the last Search Off The Record podcast about information retrieval. If you have not read anything in-depth about this topic, I highly recommend you listen to what Gary said.
There is a heck of a lot going on here with this Google knowledge panel. If you search for [amish] on mobile and see the “people also search for” section and then click on the “more” link, you are taken to this scrollable carousel unit with more options people also search for options
Looks like Google made a change to how many FAQ rich results can show in the Google Search results per search result snippet.
Spotify is now competing in the social audio space with the launch of Greenroom, which offers the option of turning live chats into podcast recordings. The post Spotify Gets Into Social Audio With Greenroom appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Shopify stores are now able to edit their robots.txt file, which gives store owners more control over how search engines crawl their site. The post Shopify Sites Can Now Edit Their Robots.txt File appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
Twitter is working on a new feature that will allow users to unmention themselves from other peoples’ tweets.
Google announced you can now manage your Google My Business profile Google Posts, your service listings, your delivery options and more directly in Google Search – like you can with other aspects of your Google My Business profile.
Google is testing a change to search results for journalists which includes a carousel of their latest articles. The post Google Starts Highlighting Journalists’ Latest Articles appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
Google’s Gary Illyes explains a case where a word that means the opposite may be treated as a low weight synonym when returning search results. The post Google May Treat Antonyms As Synonyms in Some Cases appeared first on Search Engine Journal