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Google Search Testing New Location Override Function


For an extended, very long time, Google has given searchers a method to override the placement Google Search thinks you might be trying to find. Usually, that location was within the footer, however for the previous a number of months Google has been displaying it on the prime of the search outcomes web page for some extra location-aware queries.

I wasn’t going to cowl it however (1) I wanted to queue just a few tales up whereas I’m on a household trip and (2) Google’s Search Liasion, aka Danny Sullivan, confirmed the take a look at final week on Twitter.

I do know a variety of you shared this with me over the previous a number of months and I stated it was not new, however I by no means coated the change – and with these two factors above, I’ll cowl it now.

The screenshots are from Chris Silver Smoth who shared the previous model over right here:

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The brand new model was shared over right here:

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Once more, this function is tremendous previous nevertheless it being on the prime, is a number of months previous by way of how lengthy Google has been testing it.

Danny Sullivan stated on Twitter, “Apparently it’s a brand new format that we had been already testing.”

Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.



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