Another series of changes to Google Algorithm. As announced on Google’s blog. Let us take a close look at the changes and implement them in our SEO efforts

• Related Searches: to help refine what you are searching for, this feature will now appear for more queries.
• Expanded site links: This includes an improvement in categorizing snippets and identifying duplicate snippets. We shall now have improved results and more relevant sitelinks.
• Image results will now display consistent thumbnail sizes.
• The predictions and suggestions for queries will now be more localized on YouTube. Searching for a video in India gives preferred suggestions for local results.
• Official pages are now identified accurately.
• URL and country associations are now more accurate because the data has been refreshed!
• Images results in Universal search is improved. More relevant images will now show in the results.
• Autocomplete algorithm has a minor fine tuning too.
• Improved ranking for queries that use “Site:” operator.
• Safesearch has been improved for searches including adult content.
• “Interval based history tracking for indexing.”
• Relevant searches that include synonyms are now more accurate and improved in other languages too.
• Two freshness qualifiers that were out of date were disabled
• Improvement to Google Korea to include search results for news, blogs and homepages.
• Fresh images will now gain preference.
• Google bar now has an expanded set of links at the top of the page.
• Pages in search results that include errors like 404 or page not found shall now be detected and better search results shall be provided.
• Travel related searches improved. Flight search feature is getting more and more accurate.
• Relevant queries is one of the places which was tweaked.
• Shopping rich snippets were now expanded globally.
• Spellings correction in Korean is now improved.
• Freshness of content signals improved.
• Web history and personalized searches improved.
• Video channels have improved snippets.
• Local searches have better ranking algorithms
• English spell check and correction is now accurate.
• Improvement to News Universal results.
• Detection of a new news topic that deserves a higher ranking is now detected accurately.
• Turkish weather feature is now better.
• Design for the account settings page changed!
• Well, well, well – here’s Panda Update again.
• Link evaluation is now improved. The old link analysis is now changed.
• Safe search is improved and irrelevant content now does not appear in search results.
• Process of investigating potential spam is now better.
• System can find a user’s city more reliably and return relevant local results.

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