New Core Update & AI Overviews Going International
There are no vacations for Google's product teams, as they are two big announcements one following the other these days.
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?? New Core Update
?? AI Overviews
?? Incident Affecting Website Rankings
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New Core Update
This core update seems to be about quality of results and improving what publishers and users were complaining over the past few months.
We can only guess for now that it MIGHT affect the following:
There are also updates on the Help Pages for the core updates
Over the past months, search was pretty volatile already, but now it seems to be heading into another level of changes ??
Below you can read some excerpts from what Google Announced:
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Today, we launched our August 2024 core update to Google Search. This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content that feels like it was made just to perform well on Search.
This latest update takes into account the feedback we’ve heard from some creators and others over the past few months. As always, we aim to connect people with a range of high quality sites, including ‘small’ or ‘“’independent’ sites that are creating useful, original content on relevant searches. This is an area we’ll continue to address in future updates.
AI Overviews
AI Overviews are being expanded to show in more countries, see the list below:
New Features
You can also now:
Read the announcement and a more extended review by Aleyda Solis:
Ranking Incident
There is also a problem for many websites with Google reporting a big incident.
This is unrelated to the latest core update.
You can follow the issue's updates here .
There's an ongoing issue with ranking in Google Search that's affecting a large number of search results. We've identified the root cause and this issue is unrelated to the ongoing core update rollout. Next update will be within 12 hours.
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