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Google Search has never seen as many searches for a single topic continue over a sustained period as is happening now with COVID-19. Many searches are for news about what’s happening in local areas, such as sheltering updates or the latest on testing. Here’s how we’re helping….
What is local news content? It can be material produced by publishers like local newspapers, that we understand specifically serve particular cities or regions. It can also be content we identify as relevant to a particular area, even if written by those outside the area....
Last month, we made a change to help local content surface better within our Top Stories box. In addition, we added a new “Local news” box to show local news content in response to coronavirus-related searches: Image
For publishers, there’s no particular change to make. We already review a number of signals to understand if content seems particularly relevant to a location. Our change is simply to ensure we’re better balancing those signals to match local content to those searching for it...
Beyond local news, we also made a change where both AMP and non-AMP stories will appear in Top Stories for searches that are coronavirus-related. AMP remains necessary to be considered for other topics: support.google.com/news/publisher…
As a reminder, we recently launched the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund to help local newsrooms in a time of need. The program will deliver financial support to small & medium-sized news organizations around the world.
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Nov 16, 2023
Last week, I gave a presentation about Google Search results not being perfect, how we update to improve those results, and how our guidance to creators needs to improve. In this thread, I’ll share my slides and commentary for those who weren’t able to attend my talk…
Google’s results aren’t perfect. We do make mistakes. We don’t always get it right. We’ll never get everything right. But what we can do is keep working to show the most helpful content that we can. More here: blog.google/products/searc…

Google is not perfect We make mistakes We don’t always get it right
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Our helpful content system is an example of improving Google Search:
It launched last year with the goal to ensure people see more original, helpful content created for people. In Sept, we improved the system. That sparked some creator questions & concerns developers.google.com/search/docs/ap…
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@blairmacgregor @JohnMu As said before when asked about AI, content created primarily for search engine rankings, however it is done, is against our guidance. If content is helpful & created for people first, that's not an issue.


wired.com/story/ai-gener…
developers.google.com/search/docs/es… ImageImageImage
@blairmacgregor @JohnMu Our guidance about creating helpful, people-first content is here:
developers.google.com/search/docs/fu…

That's key to being successful with our helpful content system -- and if it's not helpful content, the system catches that. More here:
developers.google.com/search/updates…
@blairmacgregor @JohnMu Our spam policies also address spammy automatically-generated content, where we will take action if content is "generated through automated processes without regard for quality or user experience" developers.google.com/search/docs/es… Image
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Sep 28, 2022
Today at Search On, we discussed how Google is advancing visual search to be far more natural than ever before, and we're how helping people navigate information more intuitively. Here's a closer look at some of what we shared....
blog.google/products/searc…
Multisearch with Google Lens in the Google app lets you use a picture and add text to it to find relevant results for previously unaskable questions. It’s now available in English globally & coming to over 70 languages in the next few months. blog.google/products/searc…
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Trending products is a new feature coming to Google Search in the US this fall to show you products that are popular right now within a category — helping you discover the latest models, styles and brands. blog.google/products/shopp…
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Today, we're rolling out the “Results about you” tool for Google Search, making it easy to request the removal of search results that lead to content with personally identifying information, such as your personal phone number, home address or email address…
The tool is available from the Google app and the web beginning today, in the US for English to start (we’re looking to expand the tool globally in the future). Click the three dots next to any result to open the “About this results” panel, then use the “Remove result” option...
The tool also makes it easier to find info about requesting removals for other types of personal information, such as the sharing of non-consensual explicit images, content on sites with exploitive removal practices and more as explained here: support.google.com/websearch/trou…
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Google's "About this result" feature will soon show how widely a source is circulated, reviews about a source, whether a company is owned by another, or even if our systems can’t find much info about a source, helpful context in evaluating information: blog.google/products/searc…
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Callouts that sometimes highlight facts in featured snippets have been improved by using our AI-system called MUM. It now understands consensus, when multiple high-quality sources agree on the same fact. blog.google/products/searc…
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