It was a massive week in search news, mostly Google, as you’d expect and I have so much more to cover next week, so stay tuned. First, I showed you the new Google mobile friendly testing tool. Then I discussed how Google has a real time indexing API they are beta testing. Google’s bug with the reconsideration request system for manual actions has been fixed. Google has to go to court over delisting sites from a publisher with a pure spam manual action, that should be interesting. Google gave some advice around the DMCA Pirate penalty from years ago. Google Search Console has added an AMP filter to the Search Analytics report and it looks like featured snippets and rich results filters are coming soon. Google launched Rich Cards, an expansion to rich snippets for movies and recipe pages and more of that is now in Google Search Console. Google Search Console automatically checks for Apple Universal Links, which is fascinating to me. Google shared some data on AMPs growth and also that it is coming to recipe pages and their search apps. Google redesigned their structured data testing tool. Gary Illyes from Google went into details on how Google crawls. Google I/O was this week and they announced Google Assistant, Google Home, VR plans, and much more. Google said 20% of the queries on the Android app are voice search triggered. Google replaced Google App Indexing with Firebase App Indexing and launched a bunch of new cool stuff around that. Google image search now has shopping ads, at least officially. Google AdWords is testing card based sitselinks. Google does purple ad labels on map ads. Google is testing their 2013 card based search results layout now. Google now lets you search using emojis. Google’s new BMI calculator works nicely. Bing launched a new version of their Bing Ads Editor, so check it out. That was most of this week in search from the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Search Topics of Discussion:
- Check Out Google's New Mobile Friendly Testing Tool
- Google: We're Testing A Real Time Indexing API
- A Google Manual Actions Bug For Sneaky Mobile Redirect Detected & More
- Fixed: Google Manual Actions Reconsideration Request Bug
- Google: There Is No Way To Redirect A Penalized Site Safely
- Google To Go To Court Over Pure Spam Manual Actions
- Google's Advice On DMCA Pirate Algorithm Penalty
- Google Search Console Adds AMP To Search Analytics
- Proof: Featured Snippets & Rich Results Filters Coming To Google Search Analytics
- Google Search Console Add Rich Cards Section
- Google Search Console Checks For Apple Universal Links For App Association
- Google Shares AMP Growth Rate & Expands To Recipes & iOS & Android Apps
- Google Redesigns Structured Data Testing Tool
- Google's Gary Illyes On Crawl Budget, Scheduling & Host Load
- Google I/O 2016: Quick Recap
- Of Google's 100 Billion Queries Per Month, Over 10 Billion Are Voice Queries
- Google Firebase App Indexing Adds More Documentation & Analytics
- Official: Google Image Search Gets Shopping Ads
- Google AdWords Testing Carousel Based Sitelinks Cards
- Google AdWords Purple Ad Label Officially For Map Ads
- Google Testing Card Snippets On Desktop Search Results
- Google Now Lets You Search Using Emojis
- Google's New BMI Calculator
- Bing Launches Bing Ads Editor Version 11.0
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