Many reports about a Google Weekend Ranking Bug that wipes out rankings only on the weekends then back to normal on Monday The post Google Ranking Bug De-Ranks Sites On Weekends appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Ranking Bug De-Ranks Sites On Weekends via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…
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Daily Search Forum Recap: January 17, 2024
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Google brings Gemini, and other AI capabilities, to new Samsung Galaxy S24 phones. The post Google Brings New AI Capabilities To Samsung Galaxy S24 Smartphones appeared first on Search Engine Journal
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Google Brings New AI Capabilities To Samsung Galaxy S24 Smartphones via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google launches new search tools using AI and gestures to make looking up information more seamless on Android devices.
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Google ‘Circle to Search’: The New AI-Powered Search Gesture For Android via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A study released by the Leipzig University, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and ScaDS.AI in Germany asked if Google Search is getting worse. The 16 page paper, downloadable as a PDF over here says that Google has slightly improved in some areas but there is still a lot of spammy content within Google Search.
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Is Google Search Is Getting Worse? German Study Published Says Kinda
Advertisers and agencies seem beyond frustrated by the lack of support from the Google Ads support team. Nicola Agius covered it incredibly well, she said, “Google Ads customer service has plummeted to an unacceptable all-time low, according to search marketers.”
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Advertisers & Agencies Frustrated With Lack Of Google Ads Support
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A recent post on Reddit asked about the impact of having a website where most of the text was within images. Would Google be able to read the text, what is the SEO impact and would the text rank in the search results?
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Google On Text Within Images
Google Search may not be showing news boxes, like top stories, for some election types of queries. So if you search for [iowa caucus] or [2024 United States primary elections] and others don’t seem to trigger news boxes.
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Google Search Not Showing News Boxes For Some Election Queries
Microsoft is testing a new style for when someone hovers their mouse cursor over a search result snippet in the Bing Search results. Bing will add a shadow effect to that snippet on hover over.
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Bing Tests Shadow Effect On Mouse Over Search Result Snippets
Conducting a thorough SEO analysis of a website provides much more than a list of keywords. An in-depth examination of your SEO strategy helps enhance every aspect of your brand’s marketing
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What to Look For in an SEO Analysis of a Website