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There is an interesting thread starting up at WebmasterWorld talking about what has changed specifically with SEO around Google over the past few years. Specifically, why techniques they used back in 2016 no longer work in 2018...

I am seeing some very limited and niche chatter around a possible Google algorithm and search ranking update starting over the weekend. There is chatter at both WebmasterWorld and Black Hat World Forums with folks noticing ranking changes and traffic changes from Google organic search...

Google increased the max characters shown in the search results snippets box to 320 characters but now it seems Google has cut it down to 160 or less characters over the past week...

Google gave really only two SEO focused sessions at I/O this year, although, Google published all the sessions they thought SEOs and webmasters would care about...

While reading this great interview with the band CHVRCHES I came across a passage that struck me as a good description of how product managers should work. They describe the producer on their latest album like this:

And I think that’s why he’s so good at what he does. He’s not a kind of producer that has one thing that he does and he tries to make every artist do that thing. He steps into the room and tries to figure out the people that are in it and figure out the music they’re...

John Mueller from Google posted on Twitter that they have updated their image publishing guidelines at this help document...

Google announced that by the end of 2018 the old AdWords interface will no longer be available.

Manashjyoti Athparia posted in the Gulshan Kumar Forums (hat tip to mayank_jee) a screen shot of Google's search results with a big box letting the searcher submit a question to be answered later by humans...