Tag Archives: Drops

Google Drops Web Stories From Images & Carousel View & Updates Function Availability

Google has updated its Web Stories documentation to explain where Web Stories can show in search. Google said Web Stories no longer will show up within Google Image Search, the carousel view and made some changes to where these Web Stories show within Google Search. Google wrote, “Web Stories don’t appear in Google Images anymore, […]

Google Drops Hundreds Of Search Quality Raters In Latests Cuts (Cancels Appen Contract)

The big news from the weekend is that Google has terminated its contract with Appen, one of the largest sources of its third-party human search quality raters sources. Appen announced this in this PDF, saying it received notice of this on January 20th, and the contract ends on March 19, 2024. It goes on to […]

Excessive Google Rating Volatility, Google Groups Drops, Parasite search engine marketing, AI, Ads & Native Search

For the original iTunes version, click here. The Google search results have been very volatile the whole past week, and most SEOs think Google will confirm another algorithm update before 2023 comes to a close. Google Groups is no longer ranking as well in Google Search. Google said it has taken steps to combat what […]

Google Updates Charts & Weblog Posts On Natural Search Traffic Drops

A few years ago, Google’s Daniel Waisberg wrote two blog posts, one on analyzing Google Search traffic drops and the other on optimizing website performance with a Search Console bubble chart. Both those blog posts are now new evergreen Google search help documents with significant changes to the content and illustrations. The new documents are […]

Google Drops How-To Rich Outcomes For Desktop Search

In August, Google announced it would do away with How-to rich results on the mobile search results. Now, Google has decided to completely do away with How-to rich results both on mobile search and also on desktop search. Google posted on X saying, “Continuing our efforts to simplify Google’s search results, we’re extending the How-to […]

Google Search Generative Experience Drops Hyperlinks In AI-Generated Solutions

Earlier this month, we reported that Google was testing three-different citation and link formats in the Search Generative Experience AI-generated answer. It seems that as of yesterday, Google has pulled back that test and removed the links from those answers. Britney Muller noticed they went away yesterday afternoon and posted about it on Twitter. “Have […]

Google Ads Drops Industry Large Blocks For Trademarks

Google is updated its Google Ads trademark policies to do away with the ability to have industry-wide blocks for trademarked terms. Instead, you will need to do this on the specific advertiser level. Google said this will reduce over-flagging issues with ads when an advertiser might legitimately want to use a trademark term but Google […]

New Google Search Generative Experience Drops Consequence Depend

Google’s new Search Generative Experience seems to be missing one thing that SEOs and reporters often look at: the number of results Google returns for that query. Some use it for a site command to see how many pages Google indexed from a site, which is not a good estimate. Some use it to say […]

Microsoft Drops Twitter from its Social Media Administration Platform

Another blow for Twitter’s ad business, with Microsoft announcing that it will be removing Twitter from its Digital Marketing Center management elementstarting next week. As first reported by MashableMicrosoft is removing Twitter as an option from its digital management platform, which provides a cohesive way for businesses to manage their social media presence. Microsoft’s Digital […]

Amazon’s Buyer Satisfaction Stage Drops. What Manufacturers Can Be taught From This State of affairs?

A survey published by PYMNTSwhich measures the level of satisfaction of American consumers, pointed to the decline in Amazon’s customer satisfaction, reaching one of the lowest levels in the retailer’s history. This blow to the company’s empire, which for nearly three decades has been defined by its obsession with customers, comes as no surprise to […]