Google Updates The Search Quality Raters Guidelines After 10 Months
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The last time Google updated the search quality raters guidelines was in July 2018. On May 16, 2019 Google pushed out an updated version of the search quality raters guidelines used by humans hired as consultants to review both the live and test Google search results, aimed at giving feedback to Google's search engineers to make improvements to the Google search algorithms.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2019
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Glass Enterprise Edition 2 - Google Glass 2 Again?
Yesterday Google announced version 2.0 of Google Glass again. I say again because 2.0 I thought came out in 2013 when they came out with an upgrade of the version 1 model. But this is Glass Enterprise Edition 2, which is an upgrade of the version used in enterprises, mostly in manufacturing areas.
Google URL Inspection Tool Is Not For Images
Google's URL Inspection tool within Google Search Console only works for web pages. It doesn't work for images or other file types yet. John Mueller from Google had to confirm this on Twitter the other day.
Yandex Webmaster Tools: SEOs Should Check It Out
Have you ever checked out the Yandex webmaster tools? Yandex is a huge Russian search engine but you don't need to care so much about your rankings in Yandex to use the tools. It also has link reports and other nice chunks of data that may be useful to your SEO metrics.
Google John Mueller: Voice Search Query Data Shouldn't Be A Priority
For years and years now, Google has been suggesting that Google Search Console way add ways to see your query data filtered by voice search. So you can see how people search using voice versus other inputs. John Mueller from Google said he personally feels there are more important things to add to Search Console over this specific request.
- Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2019 | May 20, 2019
- Google: No Need To Block Pieces Of Content From GoogleBot | May 20, 2019
- Google URL Inspection Tool Labels 410 HTTP Status Codes As 404 | May 20, 2019
- Google: POST Requests Use More Crawl Budget Than GET Requests | May 20, 2019
- Google Testing New Beta Versions Of Chromium On GoogleBot | May 20, 2019
- Daily Search Forum Recap: May 17, 2019 | May 17, 2019
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Says No Updates, GoogleBot Info, Google Discovery & Gallery Ads, Bing Algorithms & Much More | May 17, 2019
- Bing Open Sources Their Vector Search Algorithm To Make Finding Results Fast | May 17, 2019
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