#FactChecking#News#Media#SERP#Google#Search#Journalism#ContentModeration: "Our investigation found that fact-checks enjoy greater visibility in Google Web Search compared to the articles they seek to correct, both in terms of frequency of appearance and their placement within the SERP rankings. Specifically, our study shows fact-checks rank higher than problematic content across five topical keywords groups, Covid-19, climate change, the war in Ukraine, U.S. liberals and U.S. elections, except in contested stories related to the war in Ukraine, where articles about U.S. bio-labs share equal prominence with their corresponding fact-checks. The findings imply Google moderation effects, as fact-checking content is more prominent given (nearly) equal levels of optimisation. It also implies that fact-checks are generally more prominent for audiences searching for problematic content, though both often appear in the same SERP. Navigational queries (e.g., searching for the name of a source and that content) reduce moderation effects." https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3614419.3644017
Have I fallen into a test balloon in which Google removes the display of the number of results? I noticed it during a site query. Please don't - I need this from time to time.
Just found something interesting on a Bing SERP: they were not only showing individual images as usual, but were combining several images in one frame.
In the close-up image you can see current products as well as their predecessors. Meaning: these older images are not at all displayed on the website.
My guess is that the Bing algorithm groups images together, which have something in common - as long as they are to be found on that webserver.
Bing seems to be running a new test on their first SERPs: besides blue boxes for sitelinks of the organic number one result, they were showing 2 grey boxes for some other results in the left column.
Possibly these boxes represent entities and main keywords of these pages.
At first glance I don´t see the advantage for regular users. So, maybe this is giving a glimpse into how Bing organizes results? Maybe it's not meant for the public?
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