Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: February 14, 2025
Google had some more ranking volatility around the Super Bowl weekend. Reddit blamed Google for not meeting its expected user growth
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Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Super Bowl Volatility, Reddit Blames Google, Search Is Faster & Reviews Bug Fix
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Google has updated its Merchant Listing structured data documentation to now support, in beta, membership loyalty pricing property types. Google also updated the docs to provide more examples and instructions around active prices, sale prices, strikethrough prices, and member prices in JSON-LD.
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Google Merchant Listing New Membership Loyalty Pricing Property
Google seems to be adding links to review publishers when you hover over some of the product results, popular products, snippets. The links show only after the box expands, and it includes a snippet of content and then a link to the source.
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Google Article Links To Product Snippet Overlays
Google seems to have removed the minimum required budget for Local Service Ads. It is not clear if this is intentional or a bug but the box to stop you from setting a budget too low, seems to not be there anymore.
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Google Dropped Minimum Required Budget For Local Service Ads
Google Ads has added to Performance Max campaigns, the search themes, an indicator to tell you what is driving a specific change in your ad performance. This shows a trend icon near the campaign and then shows you why it is performing, as it is.
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Google Ads New Performance Max Search Themes Indicator
Remember the Bing shopping / e-commerce cards? Well, now it looks like Bing is putting an ad slot in them and labeled them as ads.
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Bing Shopping / E-Commerce Card With Ads
Google has posted an update on the reviews bug we first reported on a week ago, that it later confirmed this past Monday and we saw a fix rolling out starting on Tuesday. The short, it is not yet fully fixed but it should be in the coming few days.
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Google: Google Reviews Count Bug Not Fully Fixed Yet
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