Day by day Search Discussion board Recap: August 6, 2024

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

The DOJ dominated Google is a monopoly and motion can be taken to restrict that. Google Search rankings are additionally heating up. Google Search Console has a brand new suggestions part. Google Enterprise Profiles exhibits your opponents within the see additionally carousel. There’s a new search engine optimization rip-off going round. Google served advertisements for merchandise from different retailers and can concern credit. Google Developments has a brand new design for trending now outcomes.

Search Engine Roundtable Tales:

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  Google Is A Monopoly, Federal Decide Guidelines (What’s Subsequent)
  
  
  Decide Amit Mehta, a US federal choose dominated on Monday that Google is a monopoly. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to take care of its monopoly,” Decide Mehta wrote in his 286-page submitting (PDF).
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  Google Search Rating Volatility Heats Up After DOJ Monopoly Ruling
  
  
  It has been a few week for the reason that superheated and bursting Google Search rating volatility, and since then, it did occur to relax a bit, no less than comparatively talking. However now I’m seeing the Google search rating volatility warmth up once more.
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  Google Search Console Suggestions (Experimental)
  
  
  Google Search Console is rolling out a brand new suggestions characteristic the place Google will present you web site enchancment suggestions. These suggestions are based mostly on the info in Search Console and purpose to assist enhance your web site’s efficiency on Google Search.
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  Google Served Advertisements For Merchandise From Different Retailers, Google Will Challenge Credit
  
  
  The massive Google Advertisements reporting outage from the eve of August 1st was an intentional outage attributable to Google serving advertisements for merchandise from different Google Service provider Heart accounts. This was not simply an advert spend concern but additionally a privateness and information concern for Google advertisers. However don’t be concerned, Google will concern credit to the “small fraction of advertisers” that had been impacted by this.
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  search engine optimization Rip-off The place You Pay Google To Repair Your Search Rankings
  
  
  There may be this search engine optimization rip-off going round the place scammers are saying you pay Google to repair your rankings in Google Search. All you have to do is prepay them and Google will repair your web site. John Mueller from Google mentioned “it is a rip-off,” that Google doesn’t provide such a service.




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  Google Developments Rolls Out New Trending Now Design
  
  
  Google Developments started rolling out a brand new design for the trending now web page a day or so in the past. The brand new design appears to present you extra filter choices and supply extra key phrase information on the identical web page.





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  Google Enterprise Profiles Listings See Additionally Carousel Main To Rivals
  
  
  Google is testing the “see additionally” carousel on Google Enterprise Profiles. This implies, somebody might be wanting instantly at your native itemizing on Google, possibly as a result of they searched to your firm identify, and Google might be suggesting opponents proper beneath your itemizing.





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  Google Secret Room Behind Bookcase
  
  
  Here’s a GIF or video of the key room on the Google Kitchener workplace. Google has this hidden room solely accessible by tilting the proper ebook on this bookshelf. In addition they have this in New York Metropolis and, Boulder, Colorado.

Different Nice Search Threads:

• Data: 14 of the top 1000 sites are now blocking OAI-SearchBot, which is for SearchGPT (including NYT, Wired, NewYorker, Vogue, GQ, and more), Glenn Gabe on X
• Can you tell if this image is real or not? Take the quiz to test your AI-detection skills and repost with your score to help stop the spread of deepfakes. (Yes, it’s an AI generated image), Brad Smith on X
• Do you remember Google Alerts? Pepperidge farm remembers… because it’s…, Gary Illyes on LinkedIn
• Is value-based bidding for lead gen right for me, Google Advertisements on YouTube
• This is due to a bug that led to the Google Display Network label appearing in error in some Demand Gen campaign reporting. I’ll get back to you on this when I have more information., AdsLiaison on X

Search Engine Land Tales:

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Cellular & Voice

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