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Google backtracks on design that made search ads look like normal results
By Jennifer Elias & Megan Graham
Google to experiment with more desktop search changes after favicon/black ad label rollout
By Barry Schwartz
Google is backtracking on its controversial desktop search results redesign
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Formerly TwitterGlenn Gabe
glenngabe
Different site, different outcome. They aren't the same site, so not unusual to see varying impact. Also several DOMAIN NAME CHANGES IN THE FALL OF 2023??? WITH ALL OF THOSE UPDATES?? :) -> Google Explains More About A Domain Name Change (several ccTLDs) and some went south...โฆ pic.twitter.com/vCBfi0hZ22
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Lily Ray ๐
lilyraynyc
Here's a fun one.
Why would Google show the favicon for the organic result, but not the ad, for the exact same URL*?
(Granted, different URL parameters and the one with no favicon passes through googleadservices.com) pic.twitter.com/gM80Z8yBNY
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Lily Ray ๐
lilyraynyc
One of the biggest changes in Google Discover recently is the shift in showing articles based on recent search queries or topics the user has opted into, like โGoogle SEOโ in the below screenshot.
When you check the associated entities/topics, they seem to be the same as before,โฆ pic.twitter.com/IHUF1pAFPT
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Aleyda Solis ๐๏ธ
aleyda
.@giacomozecchini Discovered a Google AdSense rendering bug, with the programmatic matching between ads and website content being impacted, creating an incomplete understanding of the page content - this is what happened and how it was tackled ๐๐ merj.com/blog/discovering-and-diagnosing-a-google-adsense-rendering-bug pic.twitter.com/z0Losxbl8F
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Google search changes blur the line between ads and regular results
By Tyler Sonnemaker