21 Years Covering The Search Industry
Today marks the 21st year anniversary of when I started this site, the Search Engine Roundtable. I was 23 years old when I started this site, compiling what the search community and search industry was talking about and...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 3, 2024
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. Just because you buy a generic domain...
Google: Just Because You Call Yourself It, It Doesn't Mean You Will Rank For It
Google's John Mueller responded to a question on why a company is not ranking for its new brand name, saying, "Just because you call your company something doesn't mean it'll show up on top in search like that."
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New Google Ads Customer Match For Google Analytics Audiences
Google Analytics now supports Customer Match from Google Ads. Audiences exported to Google Ads will now also include your first-party consented, hashed customer data, and your tag-based user identifiers, Carly Boddy from Google wrote on Bluesky.
Google Search YouTube Summary Pilot: Quick Takes & Key Takeaways
Google is testing a new video format for some YouTube videos that provide "easy to digest" summaries of YouTube videos based on the users queries. This is a pilot that is rolling out to some searchers over the past week or so and gives you a new user interface showing you quick takes and key takeaways from those videos.
Google Tests Underline Title, Link & Domain On Hover In Search Results
Google seems to be testing underlining the title, link and domain in the search result snippet when you hover your mouse cursor over the snippet. Generally, Google will just highlight the title link, the blue link, under the URL but here Google is underlining all of it.
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