Daily Search Forum Recap: August 13, 2024

Here’s a recap of what occurred within the search boards immediately, by the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and different search boards on the net.

Google is testing tons of hyperlinks in AI Overviews. Bing was sooner than Google in 2017. Google deactivated AdSense accounts in Russia. Google is testing mini data panel playing cards. Google Data Panels now with “connections.”

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

• Doc: Bing Was Faster Than Google In 2017
  
  A Google doc that got here out of the DOJ trails stated that again in 2017, Bing Search was sooner than Google was particularly cell queries. The doc was an inner Google doc and went by 10 components of latency.
• Google Deactivates Russia-Based AdSense Accounts, Final Payouts To Follow
  
  Google has deactivated all Russian-based AdSense accounts yesterday and can situation July earnings shall be disbursed between August 21 and 26. Google added it is going to try to disburse any remaining stability in your account, you probably have met the cancellation threshold and haven’t any cost holds, inside 60 days.
• Google Search Tests Mini Knowledge Panel Cards
  
  Google Search is testing miniature, or smaller, data panel playing cards within the Google Search outcomes. As an alternative of exhibiting the large data panel on the high, Google exhibits this smaller card on the high proper of the search outcomes, which leaves the principle search outcomes greater on the high left of the web page.
• Google AI Overviews With Tons Of Link Icons
  
  We have all been complaining in regards to the lack of citations and hyperlinks within the new Google AI Overviews. Lately Google started testing icons for hyperlink citations within the AI Overviews and has been testing them on and off. Right here is a type of with tons of hyperlink icons, like about 20 of them, for one AI Overview.
• Google Connections For Knowledge Panels
  
  Google can present the connections an individual or entity have in its data panel and break down these connections by class. Within the instance under, for Elon Musk, Google is exhibiting the household connections, the work with connections and the folks additionally seek for connections.
• Google Arcade Style Desks
  
  For some motive, Google has these arcade-style workstation desks. So, regular workstations however dressed as much as appear to be perhaps old school arcade video games. I might be incorrect, however these desks caught my eye.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• Bing AI search patents -> Informational grounding, semantic search engine results pages, and streaming a series of chats in a SERP “The company also filed a similar patent application for generating a “semantic search engine result, Glenn Gabe on X
• Google serp with snippet of “Select words to get definitions and translations without leaving the page”, Khushal Bherwani on X
• How to Get the Most Out of the Google Search Central Community? Guidance and Best Practices, Google Search Central Group
• I wonder how much ‘Back to school’ shopping revenue this drives for ecommerce retailers? And… for the affiliate marketers ranking on the deals SERP that Google triggers when you click the call to action. There are several., Glenn Gabe on X
• This allegation is 100% false and baseless. We haven’t run any homepage promotions on voter registration this year. When we have run such promotions for past elections, they’ve been available to all users, Google Communications on X
• Want a quick presentation-check on SEO topics?, John Mueller on LinkedIn
• I welcome all questions @sametozsuleyman. Best way is to raise a support request https://t.co/XrLl0zn4Wz. We’ll review if this is expected (we may normalize more URLs than others as well LESS IS GEN, Fabrice Canel on X
• What do you think of switching to a circular or 3D grid?, John Mueller on Mastodon

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