Daily Search Forum Recap: September 24, 2024

Vernon September 24, 2024

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Daily Search Forum Recap: September 24, 2024

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

It took 9 months, but Google finally fully did away with the Google Cache. Google fixed the Search Console product snippets reports. Google site command for images seems broken. Google Merchant listings gains new priceType property and sales price examples. Google is testing a from small business carousel. The Google Product Experts program is not going away.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google Cache Is Fully Dead

Google has now totally disabled the Google Cache from completely working. Earlier this year, Google removed the cache link from the search result snippets. Then a couple of weeks ago, added links to the Wayback Machine. Now, the direct link to see the Google Cache has been fully disabled.

Google Fixed Google Search Console Product Snippets Report

A couple of weeks ago, we reported a bug with the Google Search Console search performance report and rich results report when you filtered by the “product snippets” search appearance option. Google finally posted an update that the report has been fixed.

Google Site Command For Image Search Wonky

It seems that Google made a change, intentionally or unintentionally, to the site command within Google Image Search. When you do a basic site command, without appending keywords to the query, then Google will return no image results.

Google Merchant Listings Adds priceType Property & Sale Pricing Examples

Google has updated its Google Merchant Listings help documentation to add priceType property and then also give new sale pricing examples. Google said they did this to “make it easier for merchants to specify sale pricing through structured data and bring parity with price features in Merchant Center.”

Google Search From Small Businesses Carousel

Here is another Google Search treatment where Google is trying to promote small businesses. Google is testing showing a “from small business” carousel in the search results, that shows products from small businesses that matches your query.

Google Product Experts Program Not Going Away

There was some speculation that Google may fold the Google Product Experts program but that is not true. John Mueller from Google responded to those concerns on Mastodon and said, “I don’t see the product expert program going away anytime soon.”

Goat Standing On Googler

Here is a photo of a goat standing on a Googlers back. I am not sure exactly what is going on, but it seems Google had a travel farm come to the office because I see goats, chickens, bunnies, pigs and more in this photoset on Instagram.

Other Great Search Threads:

An open letter to the folks in Google Search: Listen, I know you recieve a lot of criticism. No matter who you rank on top, folks are likely to complain. I also know you’re fighting an army of spammers and over-optimized content that, Cyrus SEO on X

Stale Google Maps satellite pics and Street View pics are alleged to be unfairly used by insurance companies to drop homes from being insured, Chris Silver Smith on X

You’re not learning enougg. No I’m serious. I think most people’s problems in their careers is that they just do, and don’t grow. They do the job but don’t go above and beyond to learn how to do more, better, faster, m, Carrie Rose on X

Yesterday, we won the appeal & all 800+ reviews are there. Today, someone moved the pin across the state again and all 800+ reviews are gone. We corrected the address & instantly suspended it again. What the heck is happening at Goog, Nate Louis on X

Search Engine Land Stories:

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