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Sharing is caring! A Well-Formed Query Helps a Search Engine Understand User Intent Behind the Query To start this post, I wanted to include a couple of whitepapers with authors from Google. The authors of the first paper are inventors of a patent application from April 28, 2020. It is good seeing a white paper […]
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Sharing is caring! Changes to How Google Might Rank Image Search Results We are seeing more machine learning in how Google ranks pages and images in search results. That may leave what we know as traditional, or old school ranking signals behind. It is worth looking at those older ranking signals because they may play
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Here is a photo of Google on sticks. Well, the Google logo and its letters mounted on sticks I think at the construction site of the new Google building. This photo is over a years old but hey, it is hard to find recent photos of Google things at Google offices. I found this photo
Sharing is caring! Entity Seeking Queries and Semantic Dependency Trees Queries for some searches may be entity seeking queries. Someone may ask, “What is the hotel that looks like a sail.” That query may look for an entity such as the building, the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. That entity may be identified by looking at
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Google has announced the launch of the new crawl stats report and to be honest, it is a huge upgrade from the previous report. This report now gives you data you can use to debug crawl issues and check the health of your site with crawl related issues in Google Search. The old version just
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Sharing is caring! I’ve written a couple of posts about patents at Google on personalized knowledge graphs (a topic worth thinking about seriously). Personalized Knowledge Graphs are structured information about entities personally related to a particular searcher, the attributes of those entities, the classifications of those entities, and knowledge about relationships between those entities, and
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Looks like Google is adding a message button on the Google Posts for local business profiles. Previously we saw a message button on the “updates” section, but now we are seeing then on the larger Google Posts section. Claire Carlile posted about this in two different posts on Twitter, here is one of those sets
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The other day I reported how Google was showing featured snippets with overlays but some of those featured snippets were autogenerated web stories generated by Google’s own AI techniques. Well, after I covered it last night again at Search Engine Land and spoke to Google about it, it seems Google has deleted and 404ed those
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Lluc Berrio Penycate posted on Twitter some screen shots of Google testing in Google Maps overlaying hotel attributes over the map pins for hotel listings. These can show average review ratings of hotels, category, pricing, and other attributes. Here is one screen shot: Here is another he shared: Lluc said “So, at the moment hotels
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Starting around Monday, November 23rd, there has been some signals that Google was pushing out another Google search algorithm ranking update. But the chatter is almost non-existent while some of the tools show big changes. Here is what I see, but again, this seems like a very narrow update at best. Just to be clear,
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