This post provides more information about Google’s transparency policy to help news sources understand the principles behind the policy and how to meet it in practice.

Google I/O is our annual developers festival, and this year it was all virtual. But as with
any events, virtual, or in-person, a lot of information was covered over the three-day event.
In case you missed it, here is a list of some Search-related news and announcements that might
be of interest to you.

As a website owner, you might provide a few channels where your users can interact.
Unfortunately, spammers often take advantage of these types of services to generate hundreds
of spam pages that add little or no value to the web. Learn how to prevent spammers from
abusing your site.

Making sure your Search experience is safe and free of spam is important to us and we can’t
achieve this mission without you! Here’s how we worked with you in 2020 towards safe and
spam-free search results.

A few years ago we created a generic “rich results” search appearance group in Search Console that included multiple rich result types,
including those that didn’t have their own breakout row on Search Console. This is not required anymore, since we now have breakouts for
most rich result types. Therefore we decided to sunset the rich result search appearance.

Get the most out of your videos on your ecommerce site by making sure Google can find and
index them, driving more traffic to your site.