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:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 16, 2015
This week in search I cover that technically, even without disavowing links, you can be released from the Google Penguin grips... - Google Revamps Structured Data Testing Tool & Documentation
Google has many updates to their Structured Data Testing Tool since launching in 2009, including renaming it in 2012 but yesterdays update may be one of the larger updates. - Google Adds Social Profile Links For Brand Knowledge Graph Boxes
Now, you can markup your web sites so that if your brand comes up in the search results, it can potentially show social profile links to your social channels. Google supports showing social profile links to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, YouTube... - Google Knowledge Graph Events Gets Ticket Links, Comedian Events & Venue Events
Google announced that they've upgraded the events based knowledge graph to show official ticket links, comedian events... - Google Glass Says Farewell To Explorers; Will Version 2.0 Come?
Google announced on Google+ that they are no longer will be selling the version of Google Glass they have been selling. They are shutting down the Google Glass Explorer program and removing Glass from the Google(x) division... - Google: Google AdSense Ad Hijacking Hack Resolved
Earlier this week, we reported on many Google AdSense publishers claiming some Google AdSense ads were auto-redirecting users from their their site to a spammy site... - Google AdWords Shared Library No Longer Will Work To Share Ads Across Ad Groups
Google quietly announced on Google+ that they are going to disable the ability to share ads across multiple ad groups or campaigns using the Shared library starting on February 11, 2015... - Spotted At Google: Polaris Slingshot
Paul Wilcox of Google, posted a picture of a Polaris Slingshot parked in the Google parking lot. He said it was driven there by Scott Jordan of TEC by SCOTTeVEST who came to Google to talk about his
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Googlebot executing Javascript only 10 percent of the time, Google Webmaster Help
- I got to do a fairly deep dive (again!) into Google Search and see how it has…, Google+ - Steven Levy
- Scraped? Hijacked? Cloaked? Google throwing a wobbly? How to Solve.?, WebmasterWorld