Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
Search Engine Roundtable Stories:
- Yahoo to Retain 90 Days of Search History
Yesterday, the blogsophere was abuzz with news that Yahoo will be retaining data for 90 days. At Search Engine Land, Barry explains that "[t]he data policy is not just inclusive of their search data but also their page views, page clicks, ad views and ad clicks." The industry has been pretty quiet about anonymizing data since June 2007. But this new announcement, which shortens the length of data retention by more than a year compared - Only Whitelisted Sites Can Display Videos Within Google Reader
If you're hosting your blog on wordpress.com and are embedding video in your blog post, don't expect for it to show up in Google Reader. That's what Google employees confirm in a Google Groups thread. According to Mihai, a Google rep, there's a whitelist that sites need to be added to in order for their embedded videos to actually play within Google Reader. So in case you were wondering, apparently you need to request to - Cuil Says it's Not Cool to Comment Spam
Is Cuil, the new search engine that seems to have lost momentum, trying to bring brand awareness back to the forefront by adding spam comments to blogs? That's what I'd say -- after all, they spammed my blog: And that's also what forum members have caught. A Sphinn submission points to a blog post where it's obvious that I'm not the only one who was a victim of the Cuil spam. Even WebmasterWorld forum members - Share Your Funny SEO Mistakes
I found a fun but serious SEO mistake in a Google Webmaster Help thread that I wanted to share with you all. But I felt it would be fun, if you had the time, to share at least one of your funny, but deadly, SEO mistakes - that you have seen first hand, in the comment section below. The mistake documented in the thread was that someone was not sure why his Webmaster Tools account - Google's AdWords Editor 7.0 Has Automated Backup Bug
Yesterday, we reported that Google Quietly Released AdWords Editor 7.0. We thought they did it quietly for a reason, but it turned out - they blogged about it soon after and people began installing it. I was hoping they wouldn't announce it fully until they worked out the kinks. Now I see a post from AdWordsAdvisor in that WebmasterWorld thread announcing a bug with the automated backup feature. Let me quote you: We've discovered an - Google Finally Updates Webmaster Tools Link Reports
It has been a while since I posted a link update post, based on Google updating their webmaster tools report. One of the reasons for this is because there has been a two to three month bug, where Google has not updated the report with new links. Google has not confirmed via a Google Webmaster Help thread that the reports are now being updated with the latest linkage data. We typically provide a grid of
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Meta Robots ... which bots?, Webmaster Help
- Geeks Give Back With the "Feed A Need" Charity Project, Sphinn
- Help Google Chose the logo of china, DigitalPoint Forums
- How to Build Links with HOW-TO Content, Sphinn
- Marketers hone the focus of online search ads, Sphinn
