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Google launches UGC Fresh Data Program to surface fresh user-generated content in Search

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Google introduced a UGC Fresh Data Program API that lets platforms like Reddit push user-generated content to Search more quickly.

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Google announced the UGC Fresh Data Program, an initiative to help platforms surface fresh, high-quality, and authentic user-generated content in Search. The program functions as an API that UGC-heavy sites like Reddit can use to deliver content to Google Search faster than standard crawling and indexing.

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