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's Matt Cutts: We Tested Dropping Backlinks From Algorithm, It Was Much Worse
Google's Matt Cutts latest video has Google admitting they did and do indeed test their search results by turning off linkage data as part of their algorithm. Matt Cutts said the results would be "much much worse" if they did indeed do that in real life... - Bing Updates Webmaster Guidelines: Keyword Stuffing Now Off Limits
Last night, Bing has updated their webmaster guidelines adding a section about "keyword stuffing." Surprised it wasn't there from the onset? Yea, me too but truthfully... - Google: We May Show Your Redirected URLs In The Search Results
aakk9999, the moderator at the Google forum at WebmasterWorld spotted that Google's John Mueller said that Google may display the redirect URL in the search results over the destination URL, when they deem it is appropriate... - 9 Months Later: New Google Maps Is Replacing The Old Version
Over 9 months ago, Google previewed the new Google Maps, since then many have opted to use it but if you haven't and don't want to... - Google Shopping Campaigns Now Global
Last october, Google released a new campaign type for Google Product Listing Ads (PLAs) named Google Shopping Campaigns. Now, Google Shopping Campaigns is available to all advertisers - worldwide... - Steve Jobs & Google's Vic Gundotra In 2007
Google's Senior Vice President of Social, Vic Gundotra, posted a picture of him with Apple's Steve Jobs from back in 2007. The interesting part is that this picture, from what I can tell, was taken a
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