When most classrooms were off for the holiday break, Google was spotted testing homework practice problems and quizzes directly in its search results. The special search results seem to come from Toppr and BYJU’S, after-school learning software companies. What it looks like. Here is a screen shot we were able to trigger in Google search […]
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Google confirms passage indexing is not yet live
Google’s Danny Sullivan has confirmed with us that Google has not yet rolled out passage indexing. Initially we expected, based on the original announcement, that Google would roll out passage indexing by the end of the year – 2020. But since it is not rolled out yet, I suspect Google will hold the launch until […]
Google confirms it doesn’t index passages separately
Google has confirmed on Twitter much of what we wrote in our story: How Google indexes passages of a page and what it means for SEO. Google wrote “this change doesn’t mean we’re indexing individual passages independently of pages. We’re still indexing pages and considering info about entire pages for ranking. But now we can […]
Google confirms indexing issues with both canonicalization and mobile-indexing
If you have been following our newsletter, you would have seen us reporting on unconfirmed cases of indexing issues around URLs that seem to be dropping out of the Google index. We suspected canonicalization issues with Google and we were right, partially. Google said no only are there canonicalization issues but also issues with mobile-indexing. […]
Google confirms fixing issue with indexing Disqus comments
Google’s Martin Splitt confirmed earlier this week that Google has fixed an issue with indexing and ranking some content found within the Disqus commenting platform. It is not clear how many sites were impacted by this issue, but Google said it is now resolved. What is Disqus? Disqus is a commenting platform that allows blogs […]