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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2024

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 2:00 pm

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 spoke about crawling, ways to make it more efficient and some questions around it…

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Monopoly Ruling, Ranking Volatility, Million Dollar Ad Bugs, Search Console Recommendations & More

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 12:01 pm

For the original iTunes version, click here. This week, we covered the big ruling that Google is officially a monopoly, a federal judge ruled. Google search ranking volatility heated up the day after that ruling…

Google Search Team On Crawling & Improvements To Crawling

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 11:51 am

Google posted a new “Search Off The Record” podcast yesterday on the topic of crawling where John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, and Gary Illyes spoke about how Google crawls, some ideas on how to make crawling more efficient and some misconceptions around crawl frequency and site quality.

Google: We Don’t Track How Expensive It Is To Crawl, Render, Index & Serve Pages

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 11:41 am

There has been some confusion around how Google handles pages that might be more costly for Google Search to crawl, render, index and serve – i.e. JavaScript pages

Google Featured Snippets With Emojis & Special Characters

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 11:31 am

It is not every day that you see a Google featured snippet with emojis and special Unicode characters. Here is an example of one spotted by Nick Churick (hat tip Patrick Stox) that he posted on X.

Google Lens Rolling Out Speak Now To Ask About This Image

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 11:21 am

Google seems to be rolling out a new Google Lens feature that lets you record with your camera and also speak with your voice on top of that video. Then Google Lens will match the video or image with your spoken text to give you a set of search results or an AI Overview.

Bing Search Tests Opening Searches In New Window From Home & Pagination Bar

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 11:11 am

Microsoft is testing a weird change to the Bing Search results user experience. Bing is testing that when you do a search from the home page, that it opens the search results in a new window, instead of loading those results on the same tab you are on

The 6 Best AI Content Checkers To Use In 2024 via @sejournal, @annabellenyst

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 9:30 am

Unlock the power of AI content checkers to ensure original, high-quality content. Discover the top AI content checkers for 2024 and detect plagiarism with ease. The post The 6 Best AI Content Checkers To Use In 2024 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Search Intent and the Organic Funnel — Whiteboard Friday

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 7:00 am

In this episode of Whiteboard Friday, Tom connects search intent to the organic funnel and how this can help guide our keyword research.

Google Warns: URL Parameters Create Crawl Issues via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Posted by admin on 2024/08/09 at 12:58 am

Google’s Gary Illyes warns of URL parameter issues causing crawler inefficiencies, especially for e-commerce sites.