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What creators should know about Google’s product reviews update

Google Search is always working to show the most useful and helpful information possible, through testing, experimenting, and review processes. From this, we know people appreciate product reviews that share in-depth research, rather than thin content that simply summarizes a bunch of products. That’s why we’re sharing an improvement to our ranking systems, which we call the product reviews update, that’s designed to better reward such content.

Improved data filtering and comparison on Performance reports

This post describes a new way to filter data on the Search Console Performance reports: regular expressions, or regex. This will allow users to create more complex query and page based filters and answer more questions that interest them.

Search Central LIVE Q&A

This episode is a recording of the Q&A section of the Search Central LIVE event which took place on Feb 24th, 2021. John, Martin, and Gary answer questions about launching a new site for a local business, algorithm changes, dynamic rendering, AMP, PWAs, title tag length, and more. 

We apologize for the subpar quality of one of the tracks recorded live.

Search Central LIVE → http://goo.gle/SearchCentralLIVE

Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr015-transcript 

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Transcription for Search Central LIVE Q&A

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories

New for education sites: Practice problems and Math solver structured data

In this post, we provide details to help you implement structured data on your practice problems and math solver pages to make your pages eligible to feature on Google Search as rich results. We also announce the new rich results status reports to help you make sure that your implementation is correct.

SharedArrayBuffer messaging clarifications

Some of you might have received an email from Google Search Console with the subject « New requirements for SharedArrayBuffers ». We received feedback that the message was confusing, and wanted to give some more insight into the issue, so that you can decide which next steps are appropriate.

New resources for video SEO

As global online video consumption continues to grow, Google aims to surface video content from diverse sources across the web. We want to make it easy for site owners to get their videos indexed and surfaced on Google. Today, we’re excited to share two new resources to help you optimize your videos for Google Search and Discover.

Providing better product information for shoppers

To best help users find your content and products in Search, we recommend that you clearly identify products mentioned.

Site Kit, Web Components, shards and more!

In this episode, John, Gary, Martin, and special guest Mariya, Product Manager on the Search team, discuss Google’s free WordPress plugin Site Kit, the Swiss army knife of Google products that puts the most relevant of Google’s tools directly in your WordPress admin dashboard. They also dive into web components, indexing shards (or sharks?!), and posting lists. Have a listen!

Google Search developer site → https://goo.gle/35HtREZ
Episode transcript → http://goo.gle/sotr014-transcript

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Transcription for Site Kit, Web Components, shards and more!

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories