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Google performance reports now also includes products found only in page content, without product structured data. Because of this change, you might see an increase in impressions and clicks for product results search.

Google launched the wait time of restaurants in Google Local(source).

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For the first time ever Google Search Quality raters get a raise. This was done after months of protest. The search quality raters rate the quality of the search results. Google says it has more than 10.000 raters (bron).

The link spam & helpful content update are finally done! It took the link spam update 29 days to rollout. The helpful content update was done in 38 days. Google said te rollout took longer because they were paused during the holidays.

Google is now showing a recent images carousel in the knowledge panel(link).

Google Business Profile stops with price ranges and a custom call to action.

Google said that if content is helpful & created for people first it doesn’t matter if it’s created from AI

The helpful and link spam update wil be likely finished in one or two weeks.

Microsoft wilt Chat-GPT gaan gebruiken voor de zoekmachine Bing. Volgens bronnen zou dit al rond maart kunnen gebeuren. Met deze toevoeging wilt Microsoft meer de concurrentie aangaan met Google.