Google is testing a new category filtering carousel for some search queries. And while the intent is good, the actual results make Google search results even worse. Here is what it looks like for a search: However, the narrowing down doesn’t quite seem to work. It only narrows it down to product type, without adding […]
Archives for February 3, 2017
Google Makes Low Quality Content Algo Change in Japan
Google has made a change to their search algo in Japan to lower the rankings of low quality sites in the search results. The Japanese Google Webmaster Blog made a post about improving search quality in Japanese search. As a part of this, we made improvements to the quality evaluation method of the website this […]
Google’s Other Googlebots Don’t Affect Google Search
Gary Illyes from Google posted a couple of tweets on Twitter about Google’s use of Googlebots, and particularly other parts of Google that may also use Googlebots for their own programs. The software called Googlebot is used by many many teams at Google, not just search. Better not let every engineer reinvent the wheel pic.twitter.com/Ov8hSOJaKP […]
Google Local 3-Pack Drops Organic Listing for Local Ad
Google My Business is testing a bold new change. Google is now testing their local 3-pack to include one local ad and only two organic local results. Until now, Google has been using ads only in the new sponsored local panel or including an ad in addition to the 3 organic listings. Here is what […]