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The Google search ranking algorithm update keeps getting hotter, more volatility and more movement - I think I am going to ask Google about this one - it seems big https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-ranking-algorithm-update-around-february-14th-34912.html - @searchliaison can you comment?
Another Unconfirmed Google Search Ranking Algorithm Update Around February 14th

Here we go again; yet another Google search ranking algorithm update seems to have touched down on February 14th, maybe as early as February 13th, and seems to be continuing to shake things up through

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“What makes Microsoft so confident it can integrate ChatGPT into Bing search without putting consumer trust and reputation at risk?”

Trust and reputation?

https://www.searchenginejournal.com/microsoft-bing-with-chatcpt-reportedly-launching-in-march/475609/

Microsoft Bing With ChatGPT Reportedly Launching In March

Microsoft's Bing search engine is set to get a boost with the integration of OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot technology.

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If you care about Googlebot/Bingbot/otherBot visiting your site and you're using solutions like CDN or f5, you should make a habit of going through every now and then the automatically generated firewall rules generated by some of these solutions. Sometimes they perceive crawler traffic as malicious and block it.

Where in the United States is rent the highest and where has it increased the most during the pandemic? Among the country's top 15 metro areas by population, San Francisco (surprise surprise) had the highest rent in 2021, with a median cost of more than $2,000 a month. But of these 15 metro areas, Atlanta has seen the biggest increase since the pre-COVID times, with the median rent rising 17% between 2019 and 2021.

More in this new Pew Research Center analysis: https://pewrsr.ch/3FIXNCW

10 facts about U.S. renters during the pandemic

Over the span of the pandemic, rising housing costs have hit renters hard - and prices have continued to soar over the past year.

Pew Research Center
Where are the news orgs?
Annual feature request for region filtering in Google Search Console.
Measles cases per 100,000 people before and after introduction of the measles vaccine
http://graphics.wsj.com/infectious-diseases-and-vaccines/
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines

The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.

WSJ

Local study from Joyanne Hawkins says that Google local reviews with upvotes tend to last longer https://www.seroundtable.com/upvoting-reviews-google-34595.html

#local #reviews #google #maps

Study: Upvoting Reviews Keeps The Reviews On Google Local Longer

Here is another study from Joy Hawkins and friends. This study says that upvoting reviews tend to keep the reviews on the local listings up for a longer period of time.Upvotes are when you thumbs up o

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