Some new featured snippets, a plea / warning from Instagram but also a lot of focus on who we can trust online in this week’s My Five.
Five things worth sharing from the last week or so, brought to you by a different member of the Browser Media team every Friday.
This week’s My Five is by Joe.
1. Google tests new featured snippets
A couple of fairly significant new changes to Google’s featured snippets have been seen out in the wild this week. As always with featured snippets, this could be very good news (if you manage to get your site to be featured) or very bad news (if you are not featured and other sites suddenly muscle in on your coveted no.1 organic ranking spot. There is also the debate about whether a significant featured snippet will stop anyone actually clicking through to a site at all, so it is not as black and white as it may appear.
The new additions that are being tested are:
‘From the web’
Google testing a new type of "From the web" box for product reviews. Desktop. Is this new? :) cc:@rustybrick pic.twitter.com/4yvKGGYWSj
— Vlad Rappoport ?? (@vladrpt) April 19, 2022
‘Other sites say’
I've never seen this "other sites say" before. kinda cool. pic.twitter.com/pEwTTjs3bZ
— Sarah (she/her) (@SarahBlocksidge) April 19, 2022
2. Will Elon Musk buy Twitter
There has been a lot of chatter about the prospect of Elon Musk launching a hostile bid to take over ownership of Twitter. Having bought a 9.2% stake earlier this month, the billionaire Tesla CEO said he’s...
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