A few weeks ago, I reported that Google has updated its help documentation to specify that Google Discover visibility can be impacted not just by the core updates but also specifically by the helpful content update. I asked Google when this changed and after flip-flopping a bit on the answer, Danny Sullivan of Google said

The Google February 2023 product reviews update finished rolling out yesterday afternoon on March 7, 2023. It took 14 days to rollout this expanded language version of the product reviews update that kicked off on February 21, 2023. As a reminder, original updates were in English only but now this update impacts Spanish, German, French,

We all want to see how much traffic the new Bing Chat feature will send us and we know Bing Webmaster Tools will eventually add it. But how about analytics? Well, there are signs Bing Chat is adding some tracking variables for analytics software. This seems to only be available with Bing Chat for the

Here is a photo from the Google Atlanta office of a cool-looking room with a retro-looking sofa. Of course, the sofa is in Googley colors. I spotted this on Instagram. This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry

Google announced last week that Google Search “now makes it easier to search for datasets” by showing “more datasets” and explore more features for datasets within Google Search. To be fair, Google has had datasets in Google Search for several years now and Google even has Search Console datasets report for the supported schema. We

Google Explore is that weird feature you get when you keep scrolling and scrolling through the search results. Then Google hits you with this explore feature to expand your query in a very visual way. Well, it seems like Google added local listings to the Google Explore section. We’ve seen Google expand the explore feature

Google may be testing replacing the “people also ask” with a “more to ask” box. Google is also testing “People are also asking” and “Others want to know” too, instead of people also ask. I am unsure if this is just a headline change or if there is any functional difference between the “more to

Google’s John Mueller was asked if having hyphens in your domain name, like www.my-site-goes-here.com, can cause ranking issues in Google Search. John Mueller said no, domains with hyphens are not seen as low quality by Google algorithms. Here are those tweets: I’m tempted to answer something sarcastic, but no. — John Mueller is watching out