Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...
Friday, May 31, 2019
Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Algorithm Update, Mobile-First Indexing, Indexing Bugs, Favicons, Search Quality & AdSense
Another busy week in search where we had a possible Google search ranking algorithm update on Wednesday. Google said they will index all new unknown sites to them using mobile-first indexing by default starting on July 1st...
Google Search Quality In Romania & Other Countries Being Worked On
I don't follow much about search quality with Google specifically outside of the United States because we know Google tries hard to make their algorithms work globally but sometimes based on the content saturation in some languages, their algorithms simply don't work so well in some countries.
Google Implies It Got Better At Judging Quality Of Medical Sites
Last August, I came up with this wild theory that the August 1, 2018 core update was more focused in on medical and health/wellness types of web sites. Google said no, it was across all categories but a lot of the data showed that while it did hit all categories of sites, there seemed to be more focus by a lot on the medical/health space.
Google Lets Restaurants & Customers Add/Edit Popular Dishes
Google announced yesterday that both restaurants and their customers can add popular dishes to their Google local panel results. Google also said machine learning can help, "The popular dishes feature is powered by a machine learning algorithm that matches dish names, provided by Google Maps users, with relevant photos and reviews. This creates a handy arrangement of a restaurant's most popular meals right at your fingertips in Google Maps."
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