Daily Search Forum Recap: November 7, 2018

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Google Creepy Search Algorithm Update Continues With Stronger Volatility
  Earlier this month we reported about a Google algorithm update that happened Halloween night through November 1st and seems to be continuing on all week long. It is a creepy update that seems to be gaining momentum as the days go on.
• Google: You Cannot Opt Out Of Mobile-First Indexing
  Google’s John Mueller stated the obvious, that you cannot opt out of the new mobile-first indexing process. John said on Twitter “Nope. The world has gone mobile already, we’re just catching up” when asked about if there was an opt out.
• Google Discover More Places Surges In Google
  Google has a feature to discover more places for some local intent queries. According to RankRanger, the feature exploded in terms of how often it is shown, starting on October 24th. In the US, it increased by almost 130%, from about 3.5% of queries to about 7.9% of queries showing the feature.
• Google: Don’t Use Different Title Tags For Mobile & Desktop Pages
  Do you know of web sites that use a strategy of showing a different title tag on the desktop version of a page, compared to the mobile version of that exact same page? Well, John Mueller of Google had to take a step back when someone asked about doing such a thing.
• Google Ads Has New Ad Metrics To Help Clarify Ad Positions
  Google is rolling out four new ad metrics to help clarify the position of the ads displayed in Google search. The new ad metrics are Impression (Absolute Top) % and Impression (Top) % and Search (Abs Top) IS and Search (Top) IS.
• Google Street View Car Under Water
  It is not every day where you would see a Google Street View Car. Now it is almost never a day that you’d see the Google Street View Car flooded underwater. Here is a picture of one of these cars sub

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