Product Updates
We're continuously updating VALUE SERP to add features and functionality, most of which are a direct result of requests from customers. See the latest updates below. Within the VALUE SERP Dashboard you can subscribe to be alerted via email when new updates are released.
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Enhancement | Find wheelchair accessibility info in Google Places results – Maps search and Place details VALUE SERP's Google Places results now include data to indicate if a business displays that it’s wheelchair accessible. For search_type=places on Google Maps, a business can have a wheelchair accessible icon or a crossed-off icon, indicating it’s not accessible. VALUE SERP returns: wheelchair_accessible = true / false For search_type=place_details requests with the data_cid parameter, VALUE SERP will return: wheelchair_accessibility object containing accessibility options such as seating, parking, restroom, and entrance.
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New Feature | VALUE SERP is ready to support you as you expand from just traditional SEO strategy into the rapidly developing world of GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) – optimizing for generative AI and answer engines. VALUE SERP now provides Google AI Overview data (desktop, US only for now) to support your efforts in understanding and growing generative search performance. -Adapt content: The new data can help you understand Search Algorithm changes so you can adjust their keyword strategies -Optimize for AI-driven features: You get this data from a reliable source (us!) to run keywords at scale How to Request AI Overview Data -Add include_ai_overview=true as a parameter in your request -Make sure domain is set to .com (or input a US location) -Make sure you do not make it a mobile search (desktop only!) Data Returned ai_overview_banner - the banner ai_overview_contents type- header or list text - content ai_overview_sources source_title source_description source_url source_image source_name Let us know if we can help you with AIO results!
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Enhancement | Google: Search – update to ad results In an effort to make our parsing more efficient, resulting in faster response times and delivering more consistent results, we’ve updated the block_position field to return a number value across all object responses, including the ads array. A new field, relative_block_position, has been added to the ads array. This field will replace the previous block_position functionality and will return a response of top or bottom. |
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New Feature | Inline Hotels is now supported for Google mobile search results! VALUE SERP now parses inline_hotels when device=mobile for iPhone and Android.
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New Feature | Google Search: Discussions and Forums added to VALUE SERP's search results Google’s Discussions and Forums are now included in VALUE SERP's search results. The Discussions and Forums object provides links to various forums and online discussions. For example, if you are searching "Planning a Disney vacation," Google will link you to discussions and forums to help you research the topic. The VALUE SERP discussions_and_forums object returns the properties: discussion_title , link , source information and block_position in its results.
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New Feature | Questions and Answers are now included in VALUE SERP's Google results Google’s Questions & Answers is a SERP feature that lists the sources for closely related questions and answers based on the question asked in a search query. VALUE SERP's questions_and_answers object returns the properties: question , answer , votes and source in its results.
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New Feature | Google Search: Explore Brands results available VALUE SERP now returns the explore_brands object in Google search results (desktop and mobile). The Explore Brands object lists suggested brands based on the search query with product descriptions and links to the product. Properties included are: title , description , link , image and description . Note: This feature is currently only available for engine=google .
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| Meet Our Newest API! 🎉 We’ve just launched Backyard API , our real-time Lowe’s product data API and companion to BigBox API for home improvement data . Let us know what you think of our newest addition or if you need any help. As always, you can try it out free! |
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New Feature | Google Search: Shopping graph results available VALUE SERP can now return the shopping elements that appear in Search results (desktop and mobile) as shopping_graphs . This Google feature is currently available only for searches on google.com. |
Enhancement | Ad_carousel (sponsored) is now returned in Google Shopping search results Ad_carousel is an array of Sponsored Shopping Result objects found within the carousel.
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| Business Update As a result of significant growth, our infrastructure — namely the dynamic routing of traffic to accommodate high volume customers — has recently required updates. Reworking architecture patterns and proxy configurations has taken us a fair amount of time, which in turn has led to some slower customer issue resolution. We'd like to assure you that we’ve identified and corrected the infrastructural shortcomings, and the outcome is a 50% increase in infrastructure and proxy capacity. We apologize for the potential business interruptions you may have experienced over the last couple months. Our aim is to earn your trust back and continue to support the realization of your business goals. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you require further information. |
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Enhancement | Geo-target by latitude and longitude for Google searches VALUE SERP can now target Google searches by latitude and longitude. Location:lat:37.32646,lon:-121.80163 Make sure to include the gl & hl parameters. |
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Enhancement | Live and Video result types added for Google Top Stories Two new boolean properties video and live have been added to top_stories results. True if a top story is video format, False if not. And True when a top story is a live video, False if not.
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Enhancement | Search Tabs added to organic SERP results A search_tabs array property has been added to the search_information object for organic SERP pages. This new property shows which search result types (i.e. Maps, Images, News etc) are available for the given query.
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Enhancement | Scholarly Articles returned for organic web searches A new field scholarly_articles has been added to the APIs organic web search results to expose the Scholarly Articles section (containing links to Google Scholar) at the top of the SERP.
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New Feature | Support for custom S3-compatible object stores in Destinations It's now possible to specify a custom S3 endpoint to have Destinations upload Result Sets to any S3 compatible object store.
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Enhancement | Typical Prices from Across the Web parsed for Google Products A new property for Google Product parsing has been added - typical_prices_across_web . The property shows the low and high price values, parsed with currency values.
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Enhancement | Enhanced Film Info parsing A new film_info object has been added to the organic web search parsing to extract detailed information about film listings, including title, genre, reviews, VOD services etc.
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New Feature | Inline Recipes returned in Google web results A new inline_recipes property has been added to regular Google organic web search results to return the food recipe data shown inline with organic search results.
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Enhancement | Enhanced "about this result" Google organic results parsing The about_this_result parsing has been updated to extract the "search terms" and "related terms" sections of the result.
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New Feature | Nested Results added to organic results parsing A new nested_results array, showing any results nested under an organic result, has been added to objects in the organic_results array for regular web search results.
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Enhancement | Select all CSV Fields We have added Select All / Select None options to quickly select all CSV fields in the Batch editor and API Playground to make choosing CSV fields much quicker. |
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Enhancement | "has_product_page" property added to Shopping results A new boolean proper has_product_page has been added to search_type=shopping results. When has_product_page=true you may use the id property in a subsequent search_type=product requests' product_id field to request data from that individual product's landing page. Not all results on Google Shopping have an individual product landing page, so you can use the has_product_page property to determine whether a product page is available. |
Enhancement | Video results - "date_utc" and "domain" fields added Two news fields have been added to the Google Video results - domain and date_utc (date UTC is an API-parsed ISO timestamp for the relative date time - i.e. "5 hours ago" shown next to the Google Video result). |
New Feature | "Related Products" added to the Google Products API results Related Products, as shown in the carousel on the Google Product landing page, have been added to the search_type=product request. Price, rating, link, image and product title are retrieved.
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Enhancement | Filter Batches by Last Run date The Batches List API has been updated to allow sorting Batches by last_run date. You can also now filter the Batches by date using the last_run_before and last_run_after request parameters.The Batches Dashboard has also been updated to show the Last Run date for each Batch.
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Enhancement | Per-minute Batch scheduling improvements The Per X Minutes Batch scheduling options have been extended to allow you to run Batches on a "Per X Minute" schedule restricted to specific hours of the day and days of the week or month.The schedule_hours , schedule_days_of_week and schedule_days_of_month can now be used with schedule_type=minutes Batches for additional flexibility. This allows for scenarios such as "run this Batch every 5 minutes, between 9am and 5pm, on weekdays only".
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New Feature | Run Batches on a per-minute schedule Batches can now be scheduled on a per-minute basis, in addition to the existing hourly, daily, weekly and monthly schedules.Set schedule_type=minutes when creating your Batch and specify the per-minute schedule using the schedule_minutes parameter.Per-minute schedules of every minute up to every hour are supported.
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New Feature | Grouped "related searches" VALUE SERP will now return expanded related searches (in addition to the standard related searches already returned) that are grouped under a particular group heading. New properties have been added to the related searches array showing the group name and type. Regular related searches will have type=standard and grouped related searches will have type=group . When type=group then the group_name property is populated.
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New Feature | Local Service Sponsored Ads parsing added Local Service Ads parsing has been added to the API's response and is exposed in the local_service_ads property.
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Enhancement | Rich snippets attributes extraction Parsing of the name/value pair attributes from the rich snippet section of organic results has been added to the API's parsing.
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New Feature | New Batches API endpoint to Stop All queued and running Batches The new Stop All Batches API endpoint allows you to stop all running and queued Batches on your account in one API call. Useful if you have accidentally started a large number of Batches and need a quick way to set them all back to idle . |
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New Feature | Android and iPhone browsers available for mobile SERP parsingThe new mobile_type parameter allows you to choose to execute your device=mobile requests using an Android or iPhone mobile browser.
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We started publishing Product Updates in June 2021, please refer to update emails for updates before this date. |
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