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.
Google Search is testing more product image user experiences in the search result snippets. Google Images disallows searching for some memes. Uber said it is unable to remove the UberEats button from some Google Business Profiles. Google SFGE feedback on affiliate and news results. Google dropped the phone number from the hotel panel and pack.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
Google Removes Phone Numbers From Hotel Search Listings
Google has removed the phone number for the hotel panel and hotel panels in the search results. To be clear, the normal local listings, like pizza shops and so forth, do have the phone numbers but not the hotel listings for some reason.
Google SGE Feedback On Affiliate Results & Google News Does This Interest You Pop-Up
Google is testing more polls and feedback forms within its search results. We spotted a "How helpful was the result above?" and "Does this interest you?" feedback feature in the Google SGE and Google News results.
Uber Unable To Remove UberEats Buttons From Google Business Profiles
According to Google's policies, order delivery "providers are required to remove third-party links from a profile within 5 business days of a request from a business." But Uber Eats is telling some businesses that they are unable to remove the Uber Eats button from their Google Business Profiles listings at this time.
Google Images Notice: Memes About Groups Of People Might Be Disturbing or Hurtful
For the past several months Google Image search has been showing a notice for some meme related queries. The notice reads, "Memes about groups of people might be disturbing or hurtful." It comes up for many queries and again is not new, it has been around for several months.
Google Search Tests More Product Image Snippet Variations
We've covered product images within the search result snippets many times but here are even more variations where Google is showing up to several images across the snippet in the search results, but sometimes as few as three.
Pasukan Orange At Google Indonesia
Here is an old image that caught my eye recently from the Google Indonesia office back from Halloween of 2018. The description on Instagram says "Pasukan orange" at "Googleween." I think this is a mother and daughter photo.
Other Great Search Threads:
Glitch or what Also as usual Product window overlays at right side of serp but now in left side, Khushal Bherwani on X
Google feedback survey on ticket prices/admission results., Shameem Adhikarath on X
Happy Nowruz 2024! Today’s #GoogleDoodle celebrates the springtime festival that promotes peace, respect, kinship and the harmony between life and nature, Google Doodles on X
Today is officially my last working as a Google Quality Rater It’s been massively educational + informative. Ask me anything, Cyrus SEO on X
We’re happy to let you know that we’ve migrated the SafeSearch tool functionality to the Search Console look and feel, keeping the same functionality available as before. We hope you enjoy it!, Google Search Central on X
Noticed the ‘Customize’ option on the right side of Bing Copilot chat results. i was Searching for ‘highlighter CSS code’ led me to this, where I found this feature allowing options like Change Language, Testing Tools, etc., Shameem Adhikarath on X
Search Engine Land Stories:
Optimizing your Performance Max campaigns with Google Ads, GA4 data
The two parts of E-E-A-T Google hasn’t told you about
Other Great Search Stories:
Industry & Business
Mustafa Suleyman, DeepMind and Inflection Co-founder, joins Microsoft to lead Copilot, The Official Microsoft Blog
Google Fined €250 Million in French Clash With News Publishers, Bloomberg
Google, Microsoft and Nucor announce clean energy initiative, Google Blog
Links & Content Marketing
Content Editing: How To Handle Major Rewrites, Content Marketing Institute
The content bubble has finally burst, eMarketer
Local & Maps
Google Maps rolling out public transit directions on Wear OS, 9to5Google
How to easily find elevation in Apple Maps, Pocket Lint
Mobile & Voice
Apple Vision Pro will increase sales of Meta Quest 3 and others, AppleInsider
Google updates Pixel 5G availability list, up to 38 countries, 9to5Google
Plex pulls the plug on VR apps, including Google Daydream, 9to5Google
SEO
5 Metrics to Use in SEO Split Testing (And Rankings Isn’t One), seoClarity
Do Expired Domains still work?, Craig Campbell
How GroupM Turkey helped IKEA increase their non-branded organic traffic, Oncrawl
Introducing JetStream: Delivering SearchPilot’s SEO testing at the edge, Search Pilot
Search Engine Optimization Metrics: Detail Overview, PPC Expo
Stuffing pages with all of schema.org = a strategy-killing tactic, InLinks
Yoast SEO 22.3: Introducing AI for category and tag pages, Yoast
Semrush Copilot: Your AI Assistant for Faster SEO Insights, Semrush
PPC
Google Ads EMEA product Kickoff H1 2024 highlights, Adworld Experience
Microsoft Advertising at Cannes Lions 2024: A new world of possibilities, Microsoft Advertising
Search Features
3 ways AI is connecting people to helpful health information, Google Blog
Other Search
OpenAI Expected to Launch ‘Better’ GPT-5 for Chatbot Mid-Year, Business Insider
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