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Roger Monti’s piece in SEJ
Google Research Paper Reveals a Shortcoming in Search
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/long-form-question-answering/402519/


Kim Kraus Berg is Back! Usability
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/accessibility-search-human-experience-design/401983/?ver=401983X2


Wix and WordPress War
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wix-and-wordpress-tensions/402358/
Matt Mullenweg – Developer of WordPress
Avishai Abrahami – CEO Wix

Vunerablilites continue to exist in 17 or more Elementor Add-on Plugins for WP
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/wordpress-elementor-plugin-vulnerabilities/402330/
List of specific plugins in article

Ryan Jones on XML Sitemaps
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-important-are-image-sitemaps/401533/?ver=401533X2

Cumulitive Layout Shift – Roger Monti wrote a nice primer when writing up how Google has changed its scoring system
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-cumulative-layout-shift/402216/


Project Bernanke – Google favours its own ads in Google Display Network
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/googles-project-bernanke-favors-google-over-other-advertisers/402170/
Google was using publisher data to understand what other advertisers were paying and what they would need to pay in order to achieve specific placements and then using that data to model their bids in order to win the auctions most important to them, presumably at the lowest rates possible.

Google Product Review Update
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-product-reviews-update-big-31235.html
HUGE! But beneficial

Google Cache View is an unmaintained legacy feature
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-cache-view-is-an-unmaintained-legacy-feature-31256.html

Core Web Vitals – Big Deal or Big Daddy?