Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Google Ads notified advertisers that some ad customizers will stop working soon. Google discontinued the limited use video carousel markup. Google Maps has new directions and travel features, plus a bunch of new EV features. Google Notes on Search might not end in May 2024 despite what people suggest. Google Business Profiles asked businesses to register their defibrillators, their AEDs.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

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  Google Notes On Search Won’t Necessarily Go Away In May
  
  
  There have been some people noticing that the Google Notes On Search labs experiment has an end **** of May 2024 and thus they are expecting Notes on Search to be turned off by then. Just because it has that end **** listed, it does not mean the labs experiment will end on that ****.
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  Google Maps Releases New Directions, Travel & EV Features
  
  
  Google has announced a number of new travel features with Google Maps and Travel around driving alternatives, trains and buses, travel impact mode and then some new EV driving direction features. Google says these features are to give you more “sustainable choices.”
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  Google Ads Reminds Advertisers Some Ad Customizers Will Go Away May 31st
  
  
  On August 31, 2021, Google notified advertisers it would drop support for expanded text ads for responsive search ads. Google is now reminding advertisers that Ad customizers for text ads, expanded text ads and Dynamic Search Ads will stop serving after May 31, 2024.
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  Google Drops Video Carousel Markup
  
  
  Google has discontinued its support for video carousel markup and has thus removed it from its video structured data help documentation. Initially, Google tested video carousel on a limited number of sites and is now saying that it “ultimately found that it wasn’t useful for the ecosystem at scale.”
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  Google Business Profiles Register Your Defibrillator (AED)
  
  
  Google sent out emails a couple of days ago to businesses asking them to register their Automated External Defibrillator (AED) with Google Business Profiles. Google said, “you could save lives” if you do it.





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  Google NYC Earthquake Reaction Video
  
  
  A couple of weeks ago we had an earthquake in the New York region and I finally found a video from the Google NYC office of the reaction of some Googlers while the earthquake happened. These Googlers were recording a video and felt it but were unsure if that was a real earthquake.

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