 Hi everyone and welcome to the second Google search news. I hope life is treating you well wherever you are I'm your host today John Mueller here from Google Zurich in Switzerland With this show we want to give you a regular summary of what's been happening around Google search specifically for webmasters publishers and SEOs if you'd like to stay up to date make sure to subscribe to the channel Today we'll be covering some of the things that have happened since the previous episode We'll take a look at a cool new WordPress plugin webmaster conferences updates in search console and some other news Recently we launched site kit a WordPress plugin that effortlessly connects your WordPress site or blog to a collection of Google services Site kit makes it a breeze to get your site verified in search console and hooks up other services like Google analytics AdSense and PageSpeed Insights With a quick look at the dashboard in your site's admin panel You'll have an overview of how your website is doing overall and within Google search Curious to see what folks are searching for just want to see the overall traffic Site kit has something for almost everyone to help you easily grow your online presence I'll add a link to the description if you're curious the team working on Google search console has dropped some hot updates recently They're always working on making it easier for folks like you to make great websites that work well in Google search The updates include a report for speed as you might have heard in a previous video speed is important But understanding how it affects a website is really hard We hope this report makes it a bit easier to find bottlenecks and to resolve them another neat change Is that now the performance report has much fresher data in some cases the data? We show is just six hours old fresher data is or was One of the most common wishes our users had so we're happy that this is now live for you And last but not least we're now showing much more data about videos from your site when they're shown in search If you're keen on finding out more check out our blog We touched upon the webmaster conference series in the last episode But I wanted to give you a brief update on what's been happening there We recently had additions in Singapore Bangkok and Jakarta as well as a unique one at the home of Google in Mountain View, California in all of these locations We had presentations from Googlers some engineers some product managers about features. They're working on in Google search We have two more events lined up this year in Zurich, Switzerland and in Tel Aviv, Israel So see you there perhaps and if you couldn't make it don't fret we're planning on publishing talks from the Mountain View event soon and Looking into my crystal ball It looks like we'll have more of these events next year We have a few more short updates for you here on this YouTube channel We recently launched a series for beginners all about Google search If you're just getting started or if you're in touch with folks who are then make sure to check them out These videos will be rolling out over the course of the next months with the goal of making it easier to understand How you can grow with Google search Then the search results preview settings meta tags We talked about last time are now live if you'd like to give us information on How much information a preview can show then check out our documentation for how to get them set up if you've added other meta tags before then these new ones won't be that different and Finally, we recently announced that we won't be supporting flash in indexing for Google search anymore Flash has brought us lots of cool things from those early jump-and-run games to videos hosted on the web and of course Those fancy interactive websites for a long time now all of that is available directly in HTML pages with a bit of JavaScript Given that most browsers don't support flash content anymore. It's time to say goodbye to flash Thanks for helping to make the web into a fantastic interactive world that it is now Well, that's all for now folks. Thank you for joining us and now on to the weather Well, to be honest, I don't know what to say depending on where you are I see a bit of wonderful sunshine Mixed in with some rain snow and windy weather in short. There's a bit of everything for everyone