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Barry Schwartz Talks All Things Google - UI, Algorithms and AI Spam

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In this 44 minute interview, David, Mike and Greg interrogate Barry Schwartz about algorithm updates, the SERP and the future of Google in an era of AI-generated content. Here are the topics in roughly the order they appear:

Google UI changes and Universal Search

Why Google makes SERP design changes

Major algorithm updates in 2021 and 2022

Helpful content update, spam and product review updates

Is Google really trying to make search better?

How the SERP has become more competitive

Future viability of content written to rank

The problem with recipe blogs

Keyword stuffing and…

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