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.

That seems to be the case in Romania and some other countries based on a conversation between Mihai and John Mueller of Google in this morning’s hangout. John from Google admitted that the search quality is aware of specific issues in certain countries with the quality of the search results and he added “maybe I don’t know something that we could still be working on.”

He said some of the search quality updates from earlier this year may have triggered complaints from the community that the “quality overall isn’t as good as it used to be.” Those complaints have been passed on to the search quality team and they are 100% aware of the issues.

Here is the video embed when John Mueller addressed this concern at 12:05 into the video:

Here is the transcript:

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