Google’s John Mueller was asked if it is helps after doing a big URL migration to keep the old XML Sitemap file up for a bit. John said “the effect would be minimal” by using this strategy.

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 is now releasing the November 2021 broad core update…

As you know, we are all awaiting the next big Google core algorithm update and while we know it will be coming, we are all wondering if it will come by the year end? John Mueller of Google was asked this and he said, he does not know.

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Right before the big Thanksgiving Black Friday and Cyber Monday holiday season Google decided to flip the switch and roll out a core update. Google just announced that it will begin rolling out later today the November 2021 Core Update.

Last week, I included in my recap a link to a Reddit thread that seems to have got some attention. It has John Mueller of Google saying a site with only 30 articles is not enough to be authoritative and be fully indexed by Google. Now people are asking if the minimum for being authoritative is having over 30 articles on your site.

Yesterday, Google began to rollout the revamped and new PageSpeed Insights at its new home at pagespeed.web.dev. It has a bunch of user interface changes to make the reporting easier to use and understand and some changes under the hood as well.

Edward Snowden, former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency, has said it is a fact that Google Search is “totally unusable” in a post on Twitter. Snowden is not a fan of Google’s privacy efforts and ad network.

Google said it is now promoting more local news in its search results and news results, including top stories. Google said they would be doing this earlier this year and in 2020 started doing this specifically for COVID news.

Not to be outdone by Google, Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel announced that it has published BingBot’s IP addresses in this JSON file. This is in addition to the methods to verify Microsoft Bing is crawling your site and it isn’t some rogue bot pretending to be BingBot.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google is testing a new a new video carousel titled “found in video.” If Google can detect that your answer is found in a video it has indexed, Google may show you a set of videos in a carousel with the answers.

Google had added a bunch of Google Maps features today including more Pickup with Google specifically at Krogers, restaurant price ranges, indoor map navigation and how busy venues are in a specific neighborhood.

Google is testing another variation of the Feeling Curious feature in Google Search. This one is labeled “Feeling Curious?” This section lets you “look through more topics” to explore and shows you other topics related to your query.