For the past few months we have covered the vocal and visual complaints around Google Search not showing image thumbnails for recipe search results and other search results that generally have image thumbnails attached to the search result snippet. Google has responded to the large Google Webmaster Help thread in the forums by saying we … Read more
There is a large thread in the Google Analytics Help Forum with complaints from site owners of being flooded with fake referral traffic originating from Poland. This seems to be the typical referral spam issue and it started around February 17th or so. There are actually several threads with complaints around this issue in the … Read more
OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT a little over a year ago, has recently taken to social media to address concerns regarding the “lazy” performance of GPT-4 on social media and Google Reviews. Screenshot from X, December 2023 This move comes after growing user feedback online, which even includes a one-star review on the company’s … Read more
Google’s Search Liaison, Danny Sullivan, posted that he is aware of the complaints about recipe pages being too long and hard to find the ingredients and directions. He added that this is something content producers might want to keep in mind. “If you want to appeal to that audience, you might want to ensure your … Read more
Over the past several days, some news publishers have complained that their new articles are not showing up on time in Google News and the Google News Publisher Center. They are saying that the Google News Publisher Center shows that Google didn’t fetch their new stories, sometimes lagging back three full days. Bapun, a Platinum … Read more
Google will only consider trademark complaints against specific advertisers and ads starting July 24. That’s the **** when Google Ads will roll out global changes to its Trademark Policy. Google is notifying advertisers about these trademark policy changes today. Why we care. Google said this will policy update should make resolutions faster and easier and … Read more
Google began to slowly roll out the Google Search Generative Experience on Thursday and I posted many screenshots of what I found. Since then, Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, responded to some public complaints and criticism of this new search experience. John Mueller of Google also responded to some questions and complaints. I figured it … Read more
Google has pushed out a fix to resolve some of the inappropriate or unexpected site names selections displayed in the Google Search results. This comes days after Google posted a web form asking for user feedback about site names that were inaccurate, inappropriate, or wrong, as we reported earlier this week. As a reminder, Google … Read more
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