Vacation rentals on Google make it easier for travelers to discover the best lodging options, whether they're searching for a cozy cabin or a house that sleeps ten. Today, we're announcing a new and simpler way for vacation rental integration partners to provide listing data to Google.

Earlier this year, we made a change to only show video thumbnails next to results on the main Google Search results page when the video is the main content of a page. Today, we're extending this change to search results in Video mode to better connect users with the video content they're looking for (rather than having to comb through a page to find that video). This change will start rolling out today, and it could take up to a week to complete.

Since 2013, Google has supported logo structured data, which recognizes two Organization fields: logo and url. Today we're expanding our support for organizational information by extracting additional administrative data such as name, address, contact information, and various business identifiers. You can continue to provide the logo and url fields to specify which image we use as your logo in Google search results.

Today we're announcing support for profile page and discussion forum structured data for use in Google Search, including new reports in Search Console. This markup works with Google Search features that are designed to show first-person perspectives from social media platforms, forums, and other communities.

The crawl rate limiter tool in Search Console is being deprecated on Jan 8th, 2024. This tool has been available for over a decade, but with the improvements we've made to our crawling logic and other tools available to publishers, its usefulness has dissipated.

As of November 16, Google's Search Quality Rater Guidelines have been updated to simplify our guidelines. As a reminder, these guidelines are what are used by our search raters to help evaluate the performance of our various search ranking systems, and their ratings don't directly influence ranking.

As people continue to search for courses on Google, the desire for more detailed course information has grown. Today, we are announcing a new set of recommendations to provide course structured data to Google. Publishers now have the opportunity to surface supplemental course information on Google Search by providing detailed information like pricing, educational level, ratings, and length with structured data. This data can appear in the course info rich result, which is a new carousel feature in Google Search that helps learners discover and compare courses that fit their unique needs.

Google Search regularly updates our search ranking systems to ensure we're showing the most relevant, helpful content that we can. We've had a series of notable updates we've shared about in the past few weeks, and we have two for this month. Given this, it's a good time to share some reminders in a Q&A format about how we do updates, why we share about them, and what (if anything) creators need to consider when one happens.

We're excited to announce that Search Central Live is coming back to Taipei for the first time ever on December 6. As usual, the event is hosted by the Google Search team and we're looking forward to bringing together the community to learn, share, and network.

We're delighted to announce that the trek to Mobile First Indexing is now complete.