July Google Product Reviews Update, Quality Raters Guidelines, Things To Know Disappear, Core Web Vitals, Bing, Ads & More

Search Engine Roundtable Podcast

This week, it was awkwardly quiet with the Google rankings and then Google dropped the bombshell, the July 2022 Google Product Review update touched down. Google also released new search quality raters guidelines, a refresh from the one updated 9-months ago. Google’s Things To Know feature went missing on desktop search. Google no longer counts the core web vitals scores for pages not indexed. Microsoft Bing said the new Bingbot makes up 5% of all crawls now. Google said age verification requirements may prevent a site from showing in Google Discover. Google Merchant Center now allows login required and restricted purchase to show in free listings. Google now shows three Local Service Ads on mobile, up from two. Google Local Service ads are seeing a lot of fake reviews. Google is testing list view top stories that overtake the web results. Google Search displays the return period in the search result snippets. Google Maps is testing infinite scroll in the map listing results. Google product carousel is displaying “appears on these lists.” Also, Google hotel listings show a section for “featured in.” Google tests explore more search refinements. We posted tons of new Microsoft Bing features. Google Ads is automatically switching some conversion actions to data-driven attribution. Google Maps may remove selfies, and blurry and poor-quality images. Google Ads and Bing Ads revenues were both up but both slowed. That was the search news this week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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Search Topics of Discussion:

• July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Rolling Out - Everything We See So Far
• Google Updates Search Quality Raters Guidelines On July 28th
• RankRanger: Google Things To Know No Longer Showing In Desktop Search
• Google Core Web Vitals No Longer Impacted Pages With Noindex
• Microsoft: 5% Of BingBot Crawls Are New BingBot
• Google: Age Verification Requirement May Prevent Site From Surfacing In Google Discover
• Google Merchant Center Now Allows Login Required & Restricted Purchase Free Listings
• Google Now Showing Three Local Service Ads Listings
• Google Local Service Ads Seeing A Lot Of Fake Reviews
• Google Tests List View Top Stories With News Taking Over Web Results
• Google Search Displays Return Period In Search Results Snippets
• Google Maps Tests Infinite Scroll For Search Results
• Google Products Carousel Displays Product Reviews Under Appears On These Lists
• Google Hotel Listings New Featured In Section
• Google Tests Explore More Search Refinement For Product Queries
• Microsoft Bing Search Tests & New Features
• Google Ads Automatically Will Switch Some Conversion Actions To Data Driven Attribution
• Google Maps May Remove Selfies, Blurry Or Poor Quality Images
• Google Ads Revenue Up 13.5% & Microsoft Bing Ads Revenues Up 15% But Slowed Growth