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 PageSpeed Insights Tool Now Shows Real User Speed To Your Pages
Google announced they have updated the Pagespeed Insights tool to now show real user data from Chrome users, on how they access your pages. That means, if you are using Chrome and accessing this page... - Google Tests Even More Local Finder & Hotel Search Interfaces
It feels like every other day where Google is testing a new feature and user interface in the local search results finder interface and/or hotel search... - Google: URLs In Sitemap Used To Determine The Canonical URL
Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout at the 3:16 mark that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs... - Google Search Console Search Analytics API To Get 16 Months Of Data
So now that we have 16 months of data in the new Google Search Console for the Search Performance report people want it in the Search Analytics API. Well... - Google Tests Latest From The Web Box In Search
Mordy Oberstein spotted Google adding a box to the search results titled "latest from the web" which seems to include radio shows about the search query... - Marty Weintraub - The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over here. Marty Weintraub, 58 years old... - The Deprecated Robot At Google
I am not sure if this robot does the deprecating at Google or if it is a deprecated robot or if its name is Deprecated. But I spotted the photo on Instagram, it was taken at the GooglePlex, so it is
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Extends U.S. "Patient Brokering" Ads Ban to UK, WebmasterWorld
- @psbhardwaj29 No, that's a waste of time., John Mueller on Twitter
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is World's Richest Person, WebmasterWorld
- Chrome "Site Isolation" Experimental Feature, WebmasterWorld
- Report: Facebook Working on Echo Show Competitor Called "Portal", WebmasterWorld