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Search Central Live 2022 Highlights

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Our latest update to the quality rater guidelines: E-A-T gets an extra E for Experience

Many creators are familiar with the concept of E-A-T, which is used in how we evaluate if our search ranking systems are providing helpful, relevant information. Would ordinary people feel the results they get demonstrate E-A-T, that is: expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness? Now to better assess our results, E-A-T is gaining an E: experience.

December 2022 link spam update releasing for Google Search

Today, we’re leveraging the power of SpamBrain to neutralize the impact of unnatural links on search results.

Search Status Dashboard

Transcript for Search Status Dashboard

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

Introducing the Google Search Status Dashboard

As we head into 2023, we want to introduce another tool for the public to understand the most current status of systems which impact Search – crawling, indexing, and serving. While system disruptions are extremely rare, we want to be transparent when they do happen, so please welcome our new Google Search Status Dashboard.

Visual Elements of Google Search

It can be challenging to find a certain search feature or UI element that you want to learn about, especially when you don’t know what it’s called. The brand new Visual Elements Gallery was built to help you with this: it contains the 22 visual elements that are most likely to appear on search result pages and are also relevant to site owners and SEOs.

Updates to Google’s Services in Czechia in Light of the Czech Transposition of the European

The European Copyright Directive, which is being implemented by countries in the European Union, gives new rights to news publishers online while ensuring that consumers can continue to freely access information through online platforms. The Directive allows search engines such as Google to freely link to and use « very short extracts » of press publishers’ content. The law also creates new rights for publishers when longer previews of their content are displayed online – but without defining what exactly a very short extract or a longer preview is.

Event recap: Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan 2022

We organized the first Search Central Virtual Unconference Japan on April 5, 2022 to facilitate a discussion and networking platform for the SEO, Search and publisher community, in Japanese. This is a recap from the event.

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