Google warns recipe blogs to include calorie count or risk appearance on Search

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Title is editorialized, in the Twitter comments, Danny Sullivan, Google's public search liaison states

> To be clear, it does not mean that your recipes or content will not show in search. As it says, it's a suggestion of something you might wish to try or can ignore. It has no impact on your ranking in Google Search....

Sorry about that, I tried to use only words included in the email. I thought it would be interesting to spark discussion of the merits of Google directly shaping content (instead of format) via SEO warnings (or suggestions).

Direct link to followup: https://nitter.net/dannysullivan/status/1217580438442647552

"Appearance" on search in this case seems to be referring literally to looks, not search placement. Most likely not as big an issue as it was originally made out to be.

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