Google Stopped Indexing The Web?
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There may be a serious Google bug or it might just be a interface issue - I am not sure - but if you try to find recent content indexed by Google - Google won't be able to help you out. If you try to search for content in the past hour or so from sites like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or almost any site, you will be out of luck.
Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2019
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...
Brian White, A Lead Spam Fighter Leaves Google
Brian White worked at Google for over 16 years, joining the company before I started this blog back in November 2002. He worked with Matt Cutts I believe almost his whole time while at Google and fought spam side by side with him and the webspam team all those years.
GoogleBot May Be Injecting Unwanted Meta Data Into Your Page
Let me first start off with the title may sound more scary than it is, but I tried hard to come up with a short title for this post and I failed (traveling this week and I am tired). In short, with the new evergreen GoogleBot able to do more, some ad networks and other embeds GoogleBot can now render may render meta data, titles, canonicals, etc into your body content.
Bing Explains How To Submit URLs Via API
Remember earlier this year Bing wanted to slow crawling the web and request webmasters to push them content via their URL submission tool. They expanded their rate limits and opened their API for it. Now, Bing posted an easy to understand how to blog post on this topic.
Google Tests Renaming Posts To Updates
Mike Blumenthal spotted Google renaming the Google Posts section in the local knowledge panel from "Posts" to "Updates."
- Google Algorithm Updates & Data Refreshes Are Different Systems | May 22, 2019
- Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2019 | May 21, 2019
- Glass Enterprise Edition 2 - Google Glass 2 Again? | May 21, 2019
- Google URL Inspection Tool Is Not For Images | May 21, 2019
- Yandex Webmaster Tools: SEOs Should Check It Out | May 21, 2019
- Google John Mueller: Voice Search Query Data Shouldn't Be A Priority | May 21, 2019
- Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2019 | May 20, 2019
- Google: No Need To Block Pieces Of Content From GoogleBot | May 20, 2019
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