Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today… …
Day: March 31, 2022
Google Now Using MUM For Detecting Personal Crisis Searches & BERT For Detecting Shocking Content
Google promised to let us know when they expand when they use MUM in search and Google did just that yesterday with this new announcement. Google announced how they are using MUM for better detection of queries around personal crisis. …
Google Audio Knowledge Panel To Listen In Your Language
Last month we spotted Google testing an audio based listen and translate feature for the local panel. It seems Google is now trying this out for standard knowledge panels. These will play an audio clip of the knowledge panel text …
New: Google Data Studio Supports Discover & Google News Traffic From Search Console
Google announced that now the Search Console connector for Google Data Studio can now bring in traffic data for Google Discover and Google News. This means you can do more mashing up of your data, directly in Google Data Studio …
Google: Nofollow Is Not A Dampening Factor
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that the “nofollow is not a dampening factor.” Meaning, when you put a nofollow attribute on a link, it does not dampen the value of the link, it totally does not give any credit …
Now Seeing Volatility For The Google Product Reviews Update (v. March 2022)
Earlier this week I reported that we were not seeing huge changes yet for the March 2022 Google Products Reviews update. Well, it seems like some of the tools and a number of SEOs are now noticing larger changes specific …
Google Search Highly Cited Stories & Come Back Later For Evolving Results
Google is rolling out to features to give searchers more ammunition when looking at the search results on news related topics or evolving topics. One is a highly cited label for top stories and the other is more information about …