Starting in January, Google will no longer support practice problem structured data in search results. This change is a part of Google’s effort to streamline and improve the search results page. John Mueller, Google’s Search Advocate, provided this update and emphasized the ongoing work to improve the look of search results.

For any updates to structured data utilized in particular Google features, keep an eye on the documentation changelog. It’s an excellent idea to cease relying on practice problem markup and concentrate your efforts on other areas if you already use it.

Google revealed that it is constantly searching for methods to improve the usability and speed of search results. To do this, the company regularly reviews all its features to see if they still help both users and website owners.

Some features, they found, aren’t used very much and don’t add much value. In these cases, newer updates to search results already provide the information people need more efficiently. Because of this, Google is starting to phase out these less-used features.

Practice Problem Structured Data
Google has updated its documentation to announce that practice problem structured data is being deprecated. It will no longer appear in Search Console rich result reports, the Rich Results Test, or the Search appearance filters. However, the Search Console API will still support this type for now, until it’s fully phased out.

Dataset Structured Data
Google also clarified that dataset-structured data is only used by Dataset Search, not by regular Google Search. As a result, the deprecation notice has been removed from the Dataset documentation to avoid confusion.

Book Actions
Google has removed the deprecation notice from the Book Actions documentation. The markup is still supported and continues to power features in Google Search.

Google is discontinuing these features to speed up and simplify search results. The upgrade should make search pages load faster and more smoothly, but most users probably won’t notice any significant improvements.

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