Daily Search Forum Recap: April 30, 2021

If you do a search in Google or Bing for [adam and eve] or [jack and jill], both very G rated phrases that also have very X rated companies behind it, you will get mixed results. On the Google Search organic results, by default, the sex toy companies websites are filtered out by SafeSearch. But the Google Ads, by default, show ads to those sex toy company brands.

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 has updated its Google Maps reviews guidelines deceptive and fake engagement guidelines to now disallow making requests for revisions or removals of a negative review through offered discounts, free goods or services, or other incentives. So if someone leaves you a negative review, you are not allowed to incentivize that individual to update their review. The new guidelines. The new guideline can be found over here and it says “Content that has been incentivized by a business in exchange for discounts, free goods and/or services.” […]