March 2024
- March 12
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Clarified references to page experience and Core Web Vitals
What: Clarified how we talk about page experience and Core Web Vitals in our documentation on page experience, signed exchanges and ecommerce pagination. Additionally updated to reflect that INP is now a Core Web Vital.
- March 6
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Cleaning up recipe documentation
What: Removed guided recipes from the recipe structured data documentation.
Why: As this Google Assistant feature was removed, we're updating our recipe markup documentation to reflect that change. There's no change needed from site owners; all properties continue to be recommended for use in Google Search.
- March 5
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New spam policies
We added 3 new spam policies: expired domain abuse, scaled content abuse, and site reputation abuse. Also added a new FAQ on helpful content. Check out our blog post for more details on what changed and why.
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Generic Chrome version for Google StoreBot
What: Updated the Google StoreBot user agent (in Overview of Google crawlers) to use a placeholder version of Chrome. If you hardcoded the old value in your code, update it to ignore the version.
Why: To make it easier for the Google Shopping team to maintain the StoreBot crawler.