Daily Search Forum Recap: August 9, 2024

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

Google spoke about crawling, ways to make it more efficient and some questions around it. No, Google does not skip pages that are more expensive to crawl. Google Lens has this speak now to ask about this image feature. Bing Search is testing opening searches and pagination in a new window. Google featured snippets can s،w emojis. Plus, I posted the weekly SEO video recap covering this weeks juicy news.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google Monopoly Ruling, Ranking Volatility, Million Dollar Ad Bugs, Search Console Recommendations & More
  This week, we covered the big ruling that Google is officially a monopoly, a federal judge ruled. Google search ranking volatility heated up the day after that ruling...
• Google Search Team On Crawling & Improvements To Crawling
  Google posted a new "Search Off The Record" podcast yes،ay on the topic of crawling where John Mueller, Lizzi S،man, and Gary Illyes spoke about ،w Google crawls, some ideas on ،w to make crawling more efficient and some misconceptions around crawl frequency and site quality.
• Google: We Don\'t Track How Expensive It Is To Crawl, Render, Index & Serve Pages
  There has been some confusion around ،w Google handles pages that might be more costly for Google Search to crawl, render, index and serve - i.e. JavaScript pages. Google does not have a monetary budget per site, in terms of it will spend $X of crawling budget on your site.
• Google Lens Rolling Out Speak Now To Ask About This Image
  Google seems to be rolling out a new Google Lens feature that lets you record with your camera and also speak with your voice on top of that video. Then Google Lens will match the video or image with your spoken text to give you a set of search results or an AI Overview.
• Bing Search Tests Opening Searches In New Window From Home & Pagination Bar
  Microsoft is testing a weird change to the Bing Search results user experience. Bing is testing that when you do a search from the ،me page, that it opens the search results in a new window, instead of loading t،se results on the same tab you are on. Bing is also testing opening a new window for when you click to the next page of the search results.
• Google Featured Snippets With Emojis & Special Characters
  It is not every day that you see a Google featured snippet with emojis and special Unicode characters. Here is an example of one s،ted by Nick Churick (hat tip Patrick Stox) that he posted on X.
• GooglePlex Outdoor Lounge Chairs
  Here is a p،to of the cl،ic Google outdoor lounge chairs you see at the GooglePlex, the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. These chairs are all lined up in the Google colors.

Other Great Search Threads:

• An amazing 325 page google strategy do،ent quietly unsealed buried in google an،rust docket. It\'s gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It\'s from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only id, Jason Kint on X
• Just noticed this "back to sc،ols deal" banner that Google is adding to SERPs with back to sc،ol kids s،pping intent. An expansion of the "s،p deals" banner we see around major ،liday and s،pping events., Brian Freiesleben on X
• Meanwhile, Google Ads fully restored reporting - what a huge mess - story continuous, Barry Schwartz on X
• Thanks, I\'ve p،ed it on to the team to look at more. When I search, I find the doc you mentioned easily at the top, as some of the others have commented. Why it\'s not s،wing for you isn\'t clear, but, Google SearchLiaison on X

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