Daily Search Forum Recap: October 24, 2019

Oct 24, 2019 • 4:00 pm | Comments (0) by twitter

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 My Business Listings Drops Email Tooltip Feature - Bug or Feature?

Oct 24, 2019 • 8:21 am | Comments (1) by twitter

When you saw a review from a "Google User" in your Google My Business listings, a local review from a user who has not set up a real Google account, you were able to hover your cursor over that name and it would show you an abridged version of the email address.

Google Change Of Address Tool: Merging Is Not Moving A Site

Oct 24, 2019 • 7:57 am | Comments (1) by twitter

Google's John Mueller said merging one site into another is not the same thing as a site moving from one domain to another. You should not use the change of address tool when doing a site merge, it should only be used when moving a site fully to a new domain.

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Original Google Earth / Keyhole Team When They Were Acquired
Source: Flickr by Twitter October 24, 2019 • 7:09 am | Comments (1)
Google Safety Vests
Source: Flickr by Twitter October 23, 2019 • 7:08 am | Comments (0)
Google Oktoberfest?
Source: Flickr by Twitter October 22, 2019 • 7:00 am | Comments (0)
Danny Sullivan In Japanese Yukata /Kimono
Source: Flickr by Twitter October 21, 2019 • 7:00 am | Comments (1)
GooglePlex Pumpkin Patch
Source: Flickr by Twitter October 18, 2019 • 7:20 am | Comments (0)

Google Recipe Rich Results Image Disappearing For Some?

Oct 24, 2019 • 7:36 am | Comments (0) by twitter

Back in July Google fixed a bug with recipe rich results but that bug may be resurfacing according to Lisa Bryan, a food blogger. She said starting around October 15th her site, and others, started to see the images of their recipes disappear from Google's search results. Forcing a new crawl fixes the issue temporarily and then it may disappear again.

Google's Weird Looking French Search Results

Oct 24, 2019 • 7:20 am | Comments (5) by twitter

As you know, Google had to remove the full snippets from many Google France search results pages. So Google might just show a brief title and then a URL. But the description snippet portion for many sites is gone. It looks weird and Google knows it, they've been testing it and communicating about it.