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As you all know, I have been with Search Engine Land and SMX since the company was founded and the company has been through many changes over the past 14+ years. And one of those changes happened this week with the hire of the new “director of search content,” Carolyn Lyden. Carolyn has been in […]

The folks at the Google Analytics posted on Twitter yesterday that if you are using Google Data Studio and using the connection feature to Search Console, you can now bring in query data filtered by Google News sources. Google said “the Data Studio Search Console connector now shows you search data coming from Google News,

Gary Illyes from Google confirmed he is slowly working on improving the robots.txt tester tool, which is currently available on the old version of Google Search Console. He said on Twitter “we’re currently in the process(*) of integrating the tester with the production version of the parser.” Gary said this because there was a complaint

Google has been adding “interesting finds” to the search results since 2018. But now, if you click to show more results for interesting finds, Google will let you expand those results by related tags or topics. Glenn Gabe spotted this and posted an example on Twitter. Here are some screen shots for a search on

Rippi Hripsime Sargsyan was crowned new Miss Earth Armenia 2019 and here she is in March 2020, right before all the COVID lockdowns, modeling at Google’s office. This was in the Google New York City office, where they have all the LEGOs. LEGO modeling I guess. This was shared on Instagram back in March of

In June Google launched new square map pins to take the shape of advertisements in Google Maps. Well, now Google is making it clear to some Google Maps users that these square pins are ads. Aaron Grote shared a screenshot on Twitter of Google overlaying a dialog with this notice. It says “square pins are

We have seen restaurants have to deal with food ordering services being automatically added to their Google Maps and Google Local business listings. Now it seems professional service businesses, like law firms, need to worry about this happening as well. Ben Fisher said on Twitter that Yocale, an official Google My Business booking service option,

Google Search Console Coverage report and URL inspection tool silently follow redirects, as John Mueller of Google put it a while back. Glenn Gabe posted a useful reminder on Twitter yesterday that Search Console reports on destination urls and “if you see urls that are categorized as blocked by robots.txt or noindexed, but they aren’t,

Ryan Moulton, a software engineer who has worked at Google for almost 15 years now, said in a HackerNews thread that the Google Search team and he personally have purposefully launched “ranking changes [in Google Search] that negatively impacted revenue substantially.” He said this to drive a point that “there’s an aggressive firewall between the

Google’s John Mueller had to confirm that you do not need to have a Google My Business verified business listing to show up in Google Web Search. You do need a Google My Business listing to show up well in Google Maps and in the local pack results or to show a local panel in