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:
- After Months Of Testing, Google Launches People Also Search For Box
Over the past 24 hours or so, I received dozens of notifications of a new look and design for the people also search for box in Google. It is something we covered Google testing back in November... - Google Launches AMP Stories & Visual Stories In Mobile Search
Google launched this morning at the AMP Conference something they are calling AMP Stories. They are swipeable user interfaces that tell you a story. Google describes them as a "mobile-focused format for delivering news and information as visually rich... - Google To Make Changes To Image Search For Getty Images & Others
Google and Getty Images have not really seen eye to eye for probably over a decade, since Google shows their images in image search and people just take those images and do what they want with it. Greg Sterling sums up the relationship pretty well... - Google AdSense Places Payments On Hold Until Mailing Address Verification
Google AdSense is showing some AdSense publishers a notice that their payments are on hold until they validate and verify their physical mailing address by way of postcard... - Google Confirms: There Are Limits On Request Indexing Feature In Search Console
For the past week or so, we have been on a mission to figure out if Google intentionally removed the quota message in the Google Search Console Fetch as Google request indexing feature and if so... - Tiffany DaSilva - 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. Tiffany DaSilva, is 34 years old, lives in Toronto, Canada but was born and raised in New Hampshire... - A No Googlers Allowed Sign
I was a bit insensitive last week when I got upset around Google having a sign that said only Googlers allowed, which disallowed people like me, who are not Google employees. Louis Gray posted a pictu
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Changes in ranking are normal. It sounds like you're focused too much on a ranking tracker :)…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Crypto-Mining Hack Hijacks Thousands of Government Sites, WebmasterWorld
- How to effectively Monitor web migrations https://t.co/th4WjuVxre - My latest post at @sengineland…, Aleyda Solis on Twitter
- “We’re excited to announce that Access has a new leader to move the Google Fi..., Google+ - alphabetir
- K-12 artists, there are still 3 weeks left to enter this year’s ##Doodle4Goog..., Google+ - Google
- The site operator is just an approximation, it's not meant for diagnostics.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Tips to improve CTR for Ad Grants 5% CTR policy, The Google Advertiser Community
