Google Popular Product Spam Search Listings

February 15, 2024

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Today’s roundup:

1) Reddit Publishes New Report into How the Platform is Influencing Purchase Decisions.

2) LinkedIn Adds New Prompts To Boost Networking Opportunities.

Google seems to be having a bit of an issue with spam getting into its popular products section. This may be fed in through Google Merchant Center or normal rich results – I am not 100% sure. But here is a screenshot showing one company listing the same product over and over again, even though it should be 10 different stores.

4) Bluesky Adds More Than a Million New Users After Opening Up to All.

5) Google’s cookie deprecation plans draw fresh watchdog pushback.

6) Goodbye, iTunes: Apple officially releases replacement media apps for Windows.

7) YouTube Will Now Display Live-Streams Within the Shorts Feed, Adds New Podcast Options.

8) LinkedIn’s Removing Its Creator Mode Option.

9) Snapchat Is Now up to 800M Monthly Active Users.

10) Google Slows Dynamic Search Ad Crawler To Every 3 Weeks vs 2 Weeks.

11) Google: Search Quality Improvements Coming In Near Future.

12) Google: We Don’t Say Core Web Vitals Are A Ranking Factor.

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