Google SGE expands to 120 countries while adding new follow-up questions, AI translation help and more definitions
SGE now in more countries, more languages with more features.
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SGE now in more countries, more languages with more features.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 8, 2023 at 1:00 pm ETThis is the third reviews update of the year and the last reviews update Google will likely confirm.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 8, 2023 at 12:00 pm ETPlus the good page experience search appearance filter from the Performance report has been removed.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 8, 2023 at 11:30 am ETHaving a patent does not mean that Bing is using these techniques in Bing Search - but it is fun to read.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 7, 2023 at 9:21 am ETPart of job of the Search Liaison at Google is to share feedback on how to improve search.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 6, 2023 at 10:54 am ETThe reviews update will be switching to ongoing regular updates, which means Google will not be announcing future review updates.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 2, 2023 at 3:17 pm ETSome sites may see an increase in their Discover traffic starting soon.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 1, 2023 at 5:39 pm ETGoogle is also rolling out Product Studio.
Barry Schwartz | Nov 1, 2023 at 11:41 am ETGoogle said it will turn off the indexing crawler information in the settings page in Search Console.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 31, 2023 at 3:59 pm ETThere is a setting to turn this real-time response off.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 30, 2023 at 3:32 pm ETGoogle said you may see an error page when doing a search.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 26, 2023 at 11:17 am ETThis is a new "photo-first" search result layout where business owners need to pay more attention to the photos that show up for their business listings.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 26, 2023 at 10:54 am ETGoogle confirmed this is an experiment they are trying with a select number of advertisers.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 25, 2023 at 3:17 pm ETGoogle said the links in SGE AI answers are from high-quality sites.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm ETThis allows you to use different syntaxes that can now connect together.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 25, 2023 at 9:34 am ETThis was a very big set of Google updates, here is an analysis.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 25, 2023 at 9:22 am ETYou may have noticed a reduction in clicks from Google Search related to this change.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 24, 2023 at 11:56 am ETGoogle's request indexing tool may be having issues due to abuse by spammers.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 23, 2023 at 8:25 am ETThis spam update targeted several spam tactics and had a larger impact in some non-English languages.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 20, 2023 at 5:27 am ETThis felt like a big update, taking almost 14 days to fully roll out.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 19, 2023 at 11:11 am ETYou can use this new feature to validate that Google Search understands your content is paywalled.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 18, 2023 at 9:18 am ETGoogle removed the Favicon user agent and said you must allow Googlebot and Googlebot-Image for Google to index your site's favicon.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 18, 2023 at 8:37 am ETGoogle also added new accessibility features to Google Maps.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 17, 2023 at 12:24 pm ETWith this new structured data, Gogole launched a new rich results report and testing tool support for the markup.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 16, 2023 at 9:16 am ETLate Friday afternoon, Google has told us the issue with Google Ads has been resolved.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 13, 2023 at 5:47 pm ETGoogle's Search Liaison confirmed Google stopped indenting search results a "few weeks ago."
Barry Schwartz | Oct 12, 2023 at 3:23 pm ETPlus Google SGE can provide written drafts.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 12, 2023 at 12:23 pm ETInstead, you need to block SGE by blocking Googlebot completely.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 9, 2023 at 1:56 pm ETThis "lite" version as some are calling it fits better with the current traditional search results.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 9, 2023 at 1:27 pm ETGoogle confirmed the issue and said it delayed the indexing of newly published content between 1:30 pm and 7:20 p.m.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 5, 2023 at 7:08 pm ETThis is the third Google core update of 2023. The rollout is expected to take up to two weeks to complete.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 5, 2023 at 12:06 pm ETGoogle said this update improves its "coverage in many languages and spam types" and will roll out over the next few weeks.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 4, 2023 at 1:03 pm ETThis will be released in the "coming months" on iOS and Android, Google said.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 4, 2023 at 10:30 am ETOverall, the tools did not show as much volatility with the helpful content update than it did with core updates - but this was a big update.
Barry Schwartz | Oct 3, 2023 at 2:04 pm ETThis update kicked off on September 14 and took 14 days to roll out.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 28, 2023 at 5:37 am ETThis was disabled related to ChatGPT using content from content behind a paywall.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 27, 2023 at 2:11 pm ETAfter Google released shared conversations in Bard, Google Search began crawling and indexing those public chats.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 26, 2023 at 2:29 pm ETThis utilizes NOCACHE and NOARCHIVE tag and more features may come in the future.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 22, 2023 at 12:30 pm ETTikTok is showing links to conduct a search at Google Search.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 22, 2023 at 7:40 am ETGary Illyes from Google said this was just a change made to the documentation and was not implemented in its algorithms yet.
Barry Schwartz | Sep 21, 2023 at 4:05 pm ET