Snippets

The featured snippet is still one of the SERPs’ most coveted pieces of real estate. They allow your site to quickly jump to the top of the search results, even if the “traditional rankings” would place your site at the bottom of the first page.  My team and I have had a lot of success optimizing for featured snippets over the years. Eventually, we developed our internal frameworks for what performs best in claiming these yearned-for positions.  Below are the strategies we use to…

And three useful snippets for data science in PythonPhoto by Mohammad Rahmani on UnsplashVisual Studio Code (VSCode) is one of the most customizable and productive code editors available today. Using snippets is a great way to increase your productivity — but did you know you can create your own snippets? This tutorial will explore how you can create your own snippets to boost your data science productivity!Code snippets are templates for reusable coding patterns. They let you automate keyboard commands and even let you…

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Google is rolling out changes to its featured snippets. While that text box at the top of a Google search page can be helpful, it’s also been known to spread misinformation.The tech giant announced Thursday it was rolling out its latest AI model, called the multitask unified model, in an attempt to deliver more accurate information. Google said that the model can now understand the notion of consensus, which in this case is when multiple high-quality sources all agree on the same fact. The algorithm is supposed to be able…

Google has announced several new enhancements to Google Search today that focus on improving the overall quality of the search results, while at the same time helping searchers evaluate the search quality of the results presented to them. Google has made improvements to featured snippets, its content advisories, and the about this result. Featured Snippets callouts now uses MUM and general consensus Featured snippets in Google Search will now use MUM to help understand if…

The team behind Google Search is tweaking its featured snippets — the text boxes that sometimes spread false information while trying to offer help. The company announced an update that’s supposed to make answers more accurate and avoid the problem of false premises, or questions where no definitive-sounding answer would make sense. It’s paired with an expansion in Google’s “about this result” option and warnings for low-quality data voids, as well as a new partnership on information literacy lesson plans for middle…

Google has updated how search result snippet in Google Search for queries that contain quotes. Now, Google will show where that exact phrase appears on the page in the search result snippet in Google search, the company announced. What this means. Google explained if you did a search such as , the snippet will show where that exact phrase appears: Previously. Google said previously, Google Search did not always show the quoted search phrase in the Google Search result…

Use the libraries plotly or gif to create animated plots in PythonPhoto by Isaac Smith on UnsplashIt is not the first time I post about Data Visualization. It is certainly something that calls my attention. I love visualizing the data while exploring a new dataset because I believe that our brain was designed to capture much more information from images that it can from text or numbers.I am certain that is not just me who thinks that way. MIT scientists found out that our brain can identify images seen for a little as 13…