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:
- Google AdWords Paralysis: Advertisers Afraid to Change Campaigns
I've been holding on this topic for after the holiday break. A new and long WebmasterWorld thread has great discussion over the topic of AdWords advertisers being afraid to make change to their accounts. Why are they afraid? Well, they are afraid of being banned or their Quality Score dropping where they cannot compete and so on. So what do they do? They slowly die out. As one advertiser explained: We are afraid to do - Bing's MSNBot Crawling Fake File Names?
A WebmasterWorld thread and an older Bing Forums thread has discussion from webmasters over the issue of Microsoft Bing's web crawler, MSNBot, crawling file names that do not exist on a specific site. This reminders me of the ongoing issue of Bing creating fake referrals in webmaster log files. This has been going on for years, where Microsoft claims they have fixed it, but never really has. In this specific case, it seems like Bing - 60% of U.S. Government's Data on Google Servers? Nope
Sherri Davidoff posted an article named Our Google Government after seeing one of those Google Docs ads on a site. The ad reads, "Over 60% of the U.S. state governments have gone Google." Here is a picture of it: Of course this worries many, including myself. But you have to understand that while maybe 60% of the U.S state government has "gone Google" it doesn't mean that the U.S.'s most sensitive data is on Google's - Google & Lightbox JavaScript: Can GoogleBot Index Images in Lightbox JS?
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around getting Google to index a popular image feature sites use to show off images on their web site. It is called Lightbox JS and it basically uses JavaScript to open up a neat larger view of the image on the page. I use it on many sites, but you can see a quick example on the RustyBrick Mobile Portfolio. Just click on the image and it opens up a - Porn on Google Image Search with Strict Search On
A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that a search on (beware before you click) [cricket talks] in Google Image search returns a pornographic image. It happens both on standard safe search and strict safe search, but goes away completely when you turn off the safe search feature. Here is a picture, which I cropped a bit to show the result here: I personally see the image on the 3rd row when strict search is on and - Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: Christmas Day 2009
Merry Christmas everyone! This week at the Search Engine Roundtable was a fairly slow week, due to the holidays. Some of the news I wanted to cover includes that Googlers are working on Christmas. Also, I posted the Christmas logos and themes from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, Baidu, and so many others - so check it out. Google sent out e-cards saying they will be giving $20 million in charity in exchange for sending out - Merry Christmas All & Googlers Working Today
Merry Christmas! Although I have about five items to write about today, I figured I hold off on them until Monday. Trust me, I know how it is to be swamped and buried in feeds and news to catch up on while I am celebrating a Jewish holiday - so I will spare you all. Plus, I finally am making the move to Google Chrome, using Chromium on my Mac - so it is nice
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Summary of Advanced Search Operators in Bing, WebmasterWorld
- Christmas Season 2009 and AdSense, WebmasterWorld
- CTR Declining Since The Introduction Of Personalised Search, WebmasterWorld
- How To Get Duplicate Content Ranked Without Cheating, Sphinn
