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.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Says No Updates, GoogleBot Info, Google Discovery & Gallery Ads, Bing Algorithms & Much More
It was a busy week, Google told us there were no core updates or infrastructure updates recently despite rumors there were. Google said they rolled out the new GoogleBot over several months and the indexing bugs... - Bing Open Sources Their Vector Search Algorithm To Make Finding Results Fast
Bing announced they have made their Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) vector search algorithm open source to help others who want to make it possible to search through billions of pieces of information in milliseconds. - Change Of Plan: Google Images Not Changing Referral URL
July 2018 Google told us they would be changing the referral source URL from Google Images from https://www.google.com to https://images.google.com but that isn't going to happen anymore. Google updated their post last month I believe saying they will not be going through with this change. - Searchers Now Seeing Google Ads In Discover Feed
We knew this was coming, Google said ads will be shown in the Google Discover feed and yes, it is something SEOs are not a huge fan of. But it is here and there are ads on the Google mobile home page. - Google Won't Show Content Hidden Within Tabs In Search Snippets
We know Google has said numerous times that content hidden within tabs on mobile is something that Google will index and rank. But John Mueller of Google explained they will not show this content in the search results snippet because users won't see that content by default. - GoogleBot Supports Simple POST Requests
Martin Splitt from Google responded to a question from an SEO around if Googlebot support fetch (or XMLHttpRequest) POST-requests? Martin said he had to test it and he did and he said Google does indeed support simple POST requests based on his test. - Google Garden
Check it out, here is a garden at Google with a professional looking sign to label this a Google Garden. It even has an internal Google URL for Googlers to learn more about this garden.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- I'm not sure what you want to hear :-). It sounds like you know where the problem lies, and it's not the domain name.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Next time someone says "Facebook/Amazon/Whomever is taking market share in search," show 'em this. FB/Amzn aren't even close to the size of Google Images, never mind Google Websearch.… https://t.co/nmcZrajR6c, Rand Fishkin on Twitter
- To bring this back to the quote from Jamie: This was about the code for prev/next in *OUR* codebase. There was a bunch of code that was now basically dead code, so it got eliminated.… https://t.co/1KEZX2zQL7, Martin Splitt @ on Twitter
- A sign of how fast things are changing in machine learning: I’m at a talk where someone referred to distillation as a “standard technique” in the field. As far as I can tell, the first distillation paper is four years old. ht, Paul Haahr on Twitter
- Good catch, Adam! I added a little note to make it clear that transpiling doesn't hurt and I think I'll leave this in until we've fully updated all testing tools - what do you think? :)… https://t.co/Bir93MSd1y, Google Webmasters on Twitter
- Traffic halved overnight - Can't find a reason, WebmasterWorld
Search Engine Land Stories:
- Google says image search referrals will not get new source URL (but forgets to tell us)
- Nextdoor emerges as a location marketing destination
- Search Engine Land Brief – May 17, 2019
- Microsoft goes open source with one of its Bing algorithms
- Mobile, desktop search traffic split may have stabilized at roughly 60% – 40%
Other Great Search Stories:
Analytics
- Enhanced Google Analytics Tracking for Video Publishers, E-Nor
- Why failing fast can be good for you: Developing a data-driven approach, ArtsProfessional
Industry & Business
- Baidu (BIDU) Posts First Loss Since 2005, Bloomberg
- Google expands already huge footprint in north Mountain View, Mercury News
- Documents Suggest Google Did Not Investigate Major Leaks, Wired
- Italian regulators launch probe into Google over abuse of market dominance, CNBC
Links & Promotion Building
- Link Building for a New Website: 20 Ideas to Get Links, Search Engine Journal
Local & Maps
Mobile & Voice
- New features to make audio more accessible on your phone, Google Blog
- Consumers, Publishers Struggling With Voice Search, MediaPost
SEO
- How startups can use Amazon’s SEO best practices to dominate new shopping verticals, TechCrunch
- Migration, Migrations, Migraine - Site Move Fears are not Well-Founded, SISTRIX
- Search at Google I/O 2019, Official Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Supporting older versions of WordPress, Yoast
- 10 Basic SEO Tips to Index + Rank New Content Faster - Whiteboard Friday, Moz
PPC
- A PPC Chart Makeover: Month Comparisons, Paid Search Magic
- When Google Serves Ads in Iran, Advertisers Pay the Price, Wired
Other Search
- Three new machine learning courses, Google Blog
