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    Daily Search Forum Recap: January 21, 2025

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    57 minutes ago
    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

    Microsoft Bing Now Hiding Google Search Results

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Today at 4:51 AM
    Recently we saw Microsoft tricking searchers to thinking they were searching in Google and not on Bing.

    Google Ads PMax Reports With Private Search Term Category

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Today at 4:41 AM
    In the Google Ads Performance Max search category, Google is now displaying "private search term." Private queries are terms that have been searched for by fewer than 50 unique users over the past 90 days, Google explained.

    Google AI Overviews Translation

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Today at 4:31 AM
    Google is testing AI Overviews that offer a toggle to turn on and off translations and/or just show the translations by default.

    Google: Word-Count Itself Makes So Little Sense

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Today at 4:21 AM
    Google's John Mueller replied to a bunch of screenshots of SEO tools showing word counts for the same page that tailed the word counts differently. John said, "This is also why word-count itself makes so little sense."

    Bing Adaptive Zoom Setting

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Today at 4:11 AM
    Microsoft is testing a new search setting named Adaptive Zoom. I am not exactly sure what it does, I tried to toggle it on and off and see how clicking on results or links or pagination changes but I don't see any changes. So I am missing something here.

    What to do about time goblins

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Yesterday at 7:39 AM
    Once we’ve got a plan and that plan is locked we’re in this rare and special place where the things that will pull us off-course haven’t happened yet.

    — Raw Signal Group, What to do about time goblins

    Managing Up

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Yesterday at 7:34 AM
    Michael Lopp has a great post about “managing up”, including how problematic that term is:

    To me, “Managing Up” has that “your boss’s job is more important than yours” feel, which pisses me off. Your boss’s job isn’t more important than yours; it’s different.

    He goes on to share some great advice for what to share with your manager, and when. For instance, when to share something immediately:

    Unexpected developments. A situation appears in front of you, a non-threatening one but...

    The Ghosts in the Machine

    by Rian van der Merwe
    Yesterday at 7:30 AM
    I finally had a chance to make my way through Liz Pelly’s Spotify exposé that’s been making the rounds, and it is so infuriating. Definitely worth reading the whole thing, but the short version is that Spotify is seeding their most popular playlists with generic “background music” that they pay even lower royalties for. A good summary of the issue:

    A model in which the imperative is simply to keep listeners around, whether they’re paying attention or not, distorts our very understanding...

    Daily Search Forum Recap: January 20, 2025

    rustybrick
    by rustybrick
    Yesterday at 7:00 AM
    Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...