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Google is emailing some businesses when it detects that their Google Business Profile appointment link is not working. Google's email says, "Fix your business Google link."

Microsoft Bing may use ProductGroup markup in the future for its "captions" in the Bing Search results. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said while they do not support it yet, "it's on our radar" and "the team is closely monitoring its adoption."

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said that Bing Search treats 308 redirects the same as they treat 301 redirects. This is the same as what Google said back in 2021, although Google has been a bit wishy-washy on redirects over the years.

Bing is testing a big blue "see details" button for some of the product listings in its search results. Normally when you hover your mouse cursor over the products, they expand a little but now they are also showing a blue button to "see details."

Things have been a bit quiet on the blog, and there are couple of reasons for that. The first is that I’m still ramping up in my new role at Cloudflare, and like all new roles that takes a ton of energy and life force! It’s been really good though, and I am enjoying building out the Data product team.

But the second reason is that most of my non-work, tinkering time have gone not into writing, but into making a new music side project site, now called Listen To More. So I wanted to talk...

I like Erik’s thoughts about AI and coding in Replacing my Right Hand with AI:

I do think that AI will lower the bar for anyone to be able to create software, just like anyone can use Excel to do their own personal accounting. This is a good thing!

And:

Human engineers won’t go away. We’ll still be needed to drive high-level prioritization, understand the overall architecture and scope of the problem, and review the AI’s work, especially as systems get bigger. But we’ll spend...

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

I know the Google August core update is done...

This week, the Google August 2024 core update finished rolling out, a bit earlier than expected. There is still search volatility, a lot of it...

It is like the Google August 2024 core update didn't finish rolling out, or maybe something else is going on, because I am still seeing a lot of signals of intense search ranking volatility in the Google Search results. The tools are all still heated and the chatter within the SEO community is still pretty lively.

This week I interviewed Danny Sullivan, Google's Search Liaison, with the goal of better understanding where Google Search quality is at right now, where it is going in the future and what we as content creators and search marketers need to know.