[Google Search API] related_searches not returned on Mobile version

[marm123]

There is no related_searches key returned while scraping Google Search on mobile.

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[ilyazub]

These Related searches are expected to be extracted into inline_people_also_search_for or related_search_boxes previously.

related_searches are ellipses with keywords at the bottom of the SERP.

Edit: Sorry. I've double-checked. Some pages contain both similarly-looking People Also Search For and Related Searches blocks. This is confusing. Search ID: 6347c4c0359e994965f10fbe.

People Also Search For	Related Searches

[marm123]

Opening this thread as the issue back once again:

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[marm123]

"People also search for" is also missing from the JSON response. It's a bit confusing with the naming, as Illia pointed out. I'm unsure if this is extracted in the same block, but if not, I can create a separate issue. LMK

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[schaferyan]

I'm reopening this thread as a customer just reported having this issue again. I was unable to replicate it in our Playground, however. Also it may be subtly different - feel free to move to a new thread if necessary. It's hard for me to see what's going on without being able to read Japanese, but in the example in the search_inspector it looks like we are only scraping query and link from "People also Ask" and not any of the other keys we usually parse..

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[aciddjus]

I'm reopening this thread as a customer just reported having this issue again. I was unable to replicate it in our Playground, however. Also it may be subtly different - feel free to move to a new thread if necessary. It's hard for me to see what's going on without being able to read Japanese, but in the example in the search_inspector it looks like we are only scraping query and link from "People also Ask" and not any of the other keys we usually parse..

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Not 100% sure I understand the problem. There is nothing here except query and link, and we are extracting it.

[marm123]

@aciddjus I believe the confusion comes from language differences in API results. The issue customer has is that the "People also ask" is extracted together with related searches, while in fact, it's not "People also ask" but "People also search for". Below is the conversation with a customer about their issue:

Intercom conversation

I'm closing this one as the issue is more if we should extract "People also search for" together with "Related Searches" in the same related_searches block of the JSON response or not, and this thread is about something else.

[aciddjus]

@marm123 Got it 👍

Yes it's super confusing.