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You can try the Web filter. More here: bsky.app/profile/sear...
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Official posts from the Google public liaison of search, @dannysullivan.bsky.social, sharing insights on how Google Search works.
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Google's Search Liaison
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You can try the Web filter. More here: bsky.app/profile/sear...
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Always good to talk news and Google Search with the UK’s Association of Online Publishers (AOP) — thanks for the time and great discussions!
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In this week's Search Off the Record, Elizabeth Tucker talks about using data science to improve the quality of Google Search including collaborating with UX researchers. Video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrqp... and transcript here: goo.gle/sotr076-tran...
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That looks like Bing, not Google.
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Good talking and answering questions about Google Search with those at the Google Product Experts Summit today!
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Hello Torino. Look forward to talking to people at the Google booth tomorrow and Saturday at WordCamp.
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The issue has now been resolved.
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There's an ongoing issue with serving some features in Google Search, including some results on Google News, Discover and other products. We've identified the issue and we're working on a fix. status.search.google.com/incidents/6x...
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Google's Search Liaison
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Using quotes will allow you to proactively indicate that you want pages only with the specified word, words or phrases. If you do a search and want verbatim after the fact, go to Tools, then change All Results to the Verbatim option.
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I'll pass this along. It's a good query for us to explore more. My guess is we're reading the meaning differently -- on desktop, you can see what we bold as matches, and "early voting" is common -- it's probably over-synonymizing. I don't get the router one, but routers do a diff type of polling
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You'll see how we flag some of these with "missing" and the word -- and if you click on it, it will quote the word and make it required. That happens generally if we go broad, because we didn't think an exact match might bring back relevant stuff, but still aren't sure so kind of an escape hatch
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Yes. If you don't use quotes, the search will generally look for pages that contain one or both of those words, but it may also look for synonyms, correct for misspellings or even try to understand if there's a particular meaning in combinations of words....
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Google's Search Liaison
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If you want a word to be absolutely, positively included on a page, put quotes around the word or the exact phrase you want.
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Google's Search Liaison
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This also explains more about filters: support.google.com/websearch/an...
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Google's Search Liaison
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Also to clarify for some, on mobile (the 1st screenshot) we tend to show all filters, including this new Web one. You don't need to go to "More" for it. On desktop (the 2nd), filters that seem most relevant are dynamically shown. Any filter you want that doesn't appear, those are under More.
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We’ve added this after hearing from some that there are times they’d prefer to just links to pages, such as if they’re looking for longer-form text documents, on a device with limited net access, or those who just prefer text-based results shown separately from search features. If that's you, enjoy!
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We’ve launched a new “Web” filter that shows only text-based links, just like you might filter to show other types of results, such as images or videos. The filter appears on the top of the results page alongside other filters or as part of the “More” option, rolling out today and tomorrow globally…
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This is just a glimpse of how we’re reimagining Google Search, combining the best of Search today with the new Gemini model’s advanced capabilities customized for Google Search. Learn more in our post, including how to sign up for Search Labs to try out these features blog.google/products/sea...
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Thanks to advancements in video understanding, we’re can take visual search to a whole new level, with the ability to ask questions with video. Searching with video will be available soon for Search Labs users in English in the US. We’ll expand to more regions over time.
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When you’re looking for ideas, Search will use generative AI to brainstorm with you & create an AI-organized results page. You’ll start to see this new results page when you look for inspiration — starting soon for English searches in the US, with dining and recipes.
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With planning capabilities, you can get help creating plans for whatever, starting with meals and vacations. Meal & trip planning are available now in Search Labs in English in the US. Later this year, we’ll add customization capabilities & more categories.
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With multi-step reasoning capabilities, AI Overviews will help with increasingly complex questions. Multi-step reasoning comes soon to AI Overviews in Search Labs, for English queries in the US
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Soon, you’ll be able to adjust your AI Overview with options to simplify the language or break it down in more detail. This update is coming soon to Search Labs, for English queries in the US
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AI Overviews will begin rolling out to everyone today in the US, with more countries coming soon. They provide both a quick overview of a topic and links to learn more. We’ve found that with AI Overviews, people use Search more, and are more satisfied with their results. blog.google/products/sea...
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The March 2024 core update is complete, having ended on April 19. The ranking feedback form is now ready at forms.gle/SWN1sckmUfQR... and will remain open through May 31. We’ve also updated our Debugging drops in Google Search traffic help page here: developers.google.com/search/docs/...
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Google's Search Liaison
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We do have an ability to search through forum content, and that might let you narrow more to places where this might appear. But it's a filter that happens automatically, right now. I'm trying to get it as an option people can enable if they want, so I'll pass this on.
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Google's Search Liaison
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If there is such content, the terms in your first query likely so cooccur with reviews about the quality of the book itself that it's tough. The second query, I think if there was much out there, that would have likely found it...
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Google's Search Liaison
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Thank you. The AI part, if you get it, will only be at the top -- the whole "AI overviews" thing. It looks like both that and the web listings are challenged by this query. Most likely -- there's just no one posting about this or much on the open web....
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Do you mind sharing any of the queries? Happy to take a look.
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It predicted [grilled chicken with red pepper-pecan romesco sauce] as a query and this was a top result and (again, not a cook) maybe helpful though no sesame www.eatingwell.com/recipe/28000...
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Thank you. And again, not being a cook, now I'm learning that romesco is a type of "red pepper sauce" and the recipe mentions red pepper sauce. So maybe [grilled chicken with red pepper sauce] might get close to what you were wanting? Also as I started typing that in, autocomplete kicked in...
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I know you were after recipes I guess that are like these that do use it, however, so as I said, I'm forwarding that example as something for the ranking team to look into.
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These are the romesco recipes ATK has that I can see (3 not 2 sorry):
www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/1584...
www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/1620...
www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/1584...
They don't say sesame or sesame oil on them, so we wouldn't have matched them...
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Sorry (serious, apologies)-- some people do think we somehow publish links on the web. By the way, I signed up for the ATK (America's Test Kitchen, right?) that you mentioned. They seem to have two recipes and neither of them mention sesame or sesame oil on those pages...
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Google's Search Liaison
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It does (shopping bug aside) and if you come across it happening again and feel comfortable sharing and have time, ping me the example. It's kind of my personal mission to help stomp out these types of bugs.
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Doing [romesco sauce "sesame oil"] is what I'd suggest trying to get closer to that requirement. Except, even non-cook me, doesn't seem to be getting good stuff. I'm passing this along also to the ranking team for them to dig into.
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It's not our sauce. We're matching sauces from across the open web. Not being a cook (I'm a terrible cook), I don't know how common it is or not that this sauce would typically use that. I trust you that it would & appreciate it being frustrating that be default, you might get some that don't...
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Google's Search Liaison
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Potentially. Which is something we'll look at, because back to the original post, if you want a recipe with sesame oil, or anything with any particular thing, how do you best indicate that so overviews match. The team is already looking at this example now.
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Google's Search Liaison
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Yes, this is my impression. But the AI overviews aren't just based on one page. They're based on what we know about a bunch of pages, then it's a whole predictive generation thing, and we show pages as a way to help people learn more in relation to the prediction. Definitely something we'll look at.
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For the one recipe that didn't have the word on it ... it might have at the time we indexed it. Pages change all the time, and we do try to revisit on a regular basis. But we can get out of sync, especially if there's a dynamic "other recipes" type of thing going on.
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But when I went into all the visible recipes on that page, all of them but one mentioned "sesame." Sometimes, it's because they mentioned a different recipe on the same page that mentioned the word -- but it is a match for "does this page have that word" which is what the operator does...
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If you carry on down the page, you'll get recipes and web listings like in this screenshot. With the web listings, you can see how the word appears in these -- we are matching to the quoted part. Not as clear with the recipes, because they don't have snippets (descriptions) as with web listings...
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When I do the same query now, the AI overview isn't showing sesame at all. Which ... again ... isn't really something you can match against in dynamic results. But yes, it's totally understandable that it's confusing and good feedback I'll pass on (there are also feedback options in these units)....
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The AI overviews are dynamically generated, so operators can't really "match" against them as with a web page. It's also still, as the disclaimer says, experimental. My guess is somehow it thought "sesame" and maybe confused because, as I'll get to, sesame shows up in some of these recipes....
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I didn't look at the quote operation in that, because it seemed more about just not wanting the AI overviews to show at all. Looking at the screenshot, "sesame" is part of the overview, so that's a match. But ... it also gets complicated. Hope you don't mind going down a debugging trail with me....
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You don't need the + operator and, in fact, it does nothing. It used to years ago, but the quote operator replaced it. IE: "word" = +word = Google I only want content that actually has this word. So keep using quotes and we'll work on the bug I mentioned here bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Google's Search Liaison
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Sometimes we show shopping results, and our quote operator -- annoyingly! -- isn't working right for them. Nor is the - operator. My apologies for this. It's not what should be happening, and I hope we'll get that resolved soon. I keep pushing on that internally.
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Google's Search Liaison
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We don't (generally) do this. There was a perception because sometimes you can't easily locate the quoted terms that are really on a page, and we made a change to address that. See this blog post blog.google/products/sea...
That said, we still seem to have a bug with shopping related results....
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I can't replicate this myself. Generally for a query like that, I would expect us to bring back Wikipedia results highly (which is what I get). Ping me if you have it happen again.
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I completely appreciate that not everyone likes different search features we offer and might prefer to toggle on/off the ones they like. It's something I've spent some time lobbying for internally. I'll add this to my "see, here's another reason why this would be good" examples.
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