After Semrush Acquired Traffic Think Tank, What’s Next? Insights From Co-founder Matthew Howells-Barby via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

I don’t know if this is new (sorry Mordy) but Google is showing this blended local finder result set that seems to bridge two or more different but similar queries in the same set of results and then Google shows a line of text on what the local results are matching on.

Brandon Mercer, who works at Hearst Newspapers, posted in the Google Search Console help forums that people are using the “remove outdated content tool” from Google to remove competitor pages, and he said it works. Although Google’s Danny Sullivan responded, he seems unconvinced that it does indeed work.

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. That was quick, within 24-hours…