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Google is once again investigating issues with recipe images and other images not showing for some sites within the Google Search results. We reported on several issues with recipe sites several weeks ago and it seems to be happening again for some of these sites.

The days after the Google March 2024 spam and core updates were released, Google issued tons of manual actions. They were mostly pure spam manual actions that resulted in all or parts of a website being deindexed for violating Google's search spam policies, as Google calls it. Most, if not all, of those sites that were hit have not recovered yet.

Joy Hawkins shared a very unusual bug with Google Maps where it places businesses with different addresses in the same location in the same map pin area. It just drops these map pins in one address when they are not located by that map pin.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Google has removed the phone number for the hotel panel and hotel panels in the search results. To be clear, the normal local listings, like pizza shops and so forth, do have the phone numbers but not the hotel listings for some reason.

Google is testing more polls and feedback forms within its search results. We spotted a "How helpful was the result above?" and "Does this interest you?" feedback feature in the Google SGE and Google News results.

According to Google's policies, order delivery "providers are required to remove third-party links from a profile within 5 business days of a request from a business." But Uber Eats is telling some businesses that they are unable to remove the Uber Eats button from their Google Business Profiles listings at this time.

For the past several months Google Image search has been showing a notice for some meme related queries. The notice reads, "Memes about groups of people might be disturbing or hurtful." It comes up for many queries and again is not new, it has been around for several months.

We've covered product images within the search result snippets many times but here are even more variations where Google is showing up to several images across the snippet in the search results, but sometimes as few as three.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...