Google will likely be shutting down the Google Query Hub on January 15, 2023, about two years after the service launched within the United States and a number of other years after it quietly launched in areas like India.
Shutting down. Google posted a message after you login at questionhub.withgoogle.com that claims “As of January 5, 2023, the Query Hub beta will finish. When you’d prefer to retain a replica of your knowledge, you are able to do so through Google Takeout up till March 6, 2023. After that date, Query Hub person knowledge will likely be deleted.”
What it seems like. Glenn Gabe posted a screenshot of this on Twitter:
What’s Query Hub? Google says “Query Hub is a instrument that permits creators to create richer content material by leveraging unanswered questions. Query Hub collects these unanswered person questions and surfaces them to bloggers, writers, and content material creators such as you.”
It’s principally a means for Google to allow searchers to inform it that the search outcomes offered will not be answering the question. Then, Google takes these questions and feeds them to publishers, who, in flip, can create content material that does reply the question.
Content material concepts in Search Console. We lately noticed Google experiment with a brand new part in Google Search Console named Content material concepts. Content material concepts give the content material creator, writer, search engine marketing, webmaster, and so forth., some ideas and recommendation on what new subjects they’ll write about on their web site.
The large query is, will Google transfer the Query Hub like options into this new Content material concepts part in Google Search Console?
Why we care. Creating content material concepts can generally be a wrestle for writers, which can assist content material creators with that course of. With Query Hub going away, there’s much more of a cause for Google so as to add this to Search Console. Hopefully Google will likely be transferring this characteristic and never fully eliminating it.
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