The European Copyright Directive, which is being implemented by countries in the European Union, gives new rights to news publishers online while ensuring that consumers can continue to freely access information through online platforms. The Directive allows search engines such as Google to freely link to and use "very short extracts" of press publishers' content. The law also creates new rights for publishers when longer previews of their content are displayed online - but without defining what exactly a very short extract or a longer preview is.

The European Copyright Directive, which is being implemented by countries in the European Union, gives new rights to news publishers online while ensuring that consumers can continue to freely access information through online platforms. The Directive allows search engines such as Google to freely link to and use "very short extracts" of press publishers' content. The law also creates new rights for publishers when longer previews of their content are displayed online - but without defining what exactly a very short extract or a longer preview is.

Thanks to everyone who submitted questions for the November edition of the Google SEO office hours! In this episode, you'll hear answers from folks on the Google Search team: Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman, John Mueller, Alan Kent, and Duy Nguyen. You can check out the full recording on our YouTube channel, and we're also publishing the transcript of the questions for easier reference in this blog post.

Over the years, through blog posts and other public communications, Google has regularly shared information about our automated ranking systems and how they operate. Now we've created a centralized page called "A guide to Google Search ranking systems" to make it easier for creators and others to learn about our more notable systems. This new page will also help us as we communicate how our systems work and when we update those systems.

Search Console is making it easier for merchants to display their products across Google, including a new feature for the Shopping tab, to help them drive more traffic to their online stores.

The first of the Search Central Live events is going to happen in-person in Singapore on November 24, 2022. Registrations are now open until November 15 and we welcome you to fill out the form for a chance to secure your spot at the event; that's all you need to do. We have a limited number of seats available!

Google Search performance data is the most widely used data in Search Console. This post explains in detail the data available and how Google processes it, including privacy filtering and other limitations related to serving latency, storage, and processing resources. Ever wonder how these systems work? Let's do a deep dive into them..

Today, Search is introducing site names on mobile search results to make it easier to identify the website that's associated with each result, and we're sharing how you can indicate your preferred site name with structured data.

In 2002 we launched a page with a set of guidelines for site owners that gave an overview of best practices when it came to building a site. We called this page "Webmaster Guidelines" and it's been with us ever since. Since then we added a lot of information to these guidelines to help site owners build the site that's right for their users who visit through Google Search. Today we're launching a refreshed, simplified version of the Webmaster Guidelines, and we're changing its name as well.

Google Search Console has a new report called HTTPS, which provides more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not. Use this report to get insights about HTTPS pages served on Search.