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 Test A Search Algorithm Update Yesterday Morning & Revert Back?
It seems Google may have tested a search algorithm update yesterday late morning and then may have pulled it back. The ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has chatter from the SEO community around the update but the chatter soon died down after things settled back... - Google News Trending Topics Feature Disappears
The image on the right shows how Google News would typically show "trending topics" on the left hand news filter bar. But that no longer shows up on the left bar, instead you just see the general categories of news such as World, U.S... - Google Added Over 200 Features To AdWords In Past Year, Keep Track Of Them Here
Google has launched a new page in the AdWords help center that helps advertisers keep track of what has changed, feature-wise, with the AdWords platform. The new page can be found over here... - Google "This Site May Be Hacked" Mass Warnings This Morning
As I visited the Google Webmaster Help forums, like I do a few times a day... - Lunar New Year Google Logo Shows A Sheep, Ram Or Goat?
The Google logo on many of the Google home pages is to celebrate the Lunar New Year. It is the first day of a secular, sacred or other year whose months are coordinated by the cycles of the moon. It is also the Chinese New Year... - Google Doodle On Cupcakes
Moritz Tolxdorff, a community manager at Google, shared a photo of cupcakes with a Google Doodle printed on top of it. He said it was a Doodle he created that never made it to Google's home page, but - Searcher: Google's Alessandro Volta Logo May Cause Seizures
If you didn't visit Google's home page today, you are missing out on the Alessandro Volta Doodle. Alessandro Volta invented the battery and the Google logo is a bit electric...
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- HTTP/2 is Done, WebmasterWorld
- Run PageSpeed Insights, Google Webmasters - Google+
- How to Avoid Google's Disavow Pitfall, WebmasterWorld
- Raise your budgets to keep your ads running on you..., AdWords Community
- Thumbnail of site in webmaster tools, Google Webmaster Help
