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Google Search was more volatile over the weekend. Surprising. Google responded to more search leaks about Navboost, clicks, and user interactions. I interviewed Google's Elizabeth Tucker about the March Core Update and more. Google said they can recover from informative content updates after the core update. Google talked about fixing some pages and how that may or may not help with informative content updates. Google said that search experiments can sometimes cause problems in search. Google said you can't completely ignore desktop for SEO. Google Search Console performance report added seller listings for images tab. Google added structured data for return policies at the organization level. Google removed home activity cards from search. Google said lastmod dates in XML sitemaps are either trustworthy or untrustworthy. Google said they should disallow crawling action URLs. Google should fix structured data for product variants. Google is testing cleanups for search results. Google is testing shaded favicons, site names, and URLs at the top of snippets Google is testing local 5-packs Google is testing QR codes in the local panel Google Business Profile websites are now 404ing completely Bing is testing black review stars Google is testing new formats for calling and location extensions Apple Siri gets even more useful with Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT That was the search news covered in this week's Search Engine Roundtable.
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