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 News Meta Keywords Tag Hasn't Been Supported Since October 2017
So for the past four months or more, Google has not supported the Google News meta keywords tag. Don't confuse this with the normal meta keywords tag... - Google Share URL For Random Number Generator Goes To Metronome
If you go to Google and search for [random number generator] you will be given a box at the top to generate that number. If you try to share that URL to that search result using the share buttons... - Google Local Panel Adds Mall Directories Search
Google has added mall directories information to the local panel in the search results. If you search for a local mall in your area, you may see a tab for "Directory" which will show you the stores located in that mall... - The Search Community Mourns The Loss Of Jill Sampey
Jill Sampey has passed away on Saturday, February 17th. It comes to a shock to everyone who knows her. She was the most smiley... - Ashley Berman Hale - 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. Ashley Berman Hale is 34 years old and lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with her husband and two "confident" daughters ages 7 and 5... - Old Google Word Of Mouth T-Shirt
Arunava Chakraborty shared a photo on Twitter of an old Google t-shirt, probably from the very early days of Google. It has the old logo but also says "word of mouth" which Google was the absolute kin
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- I've been watching this closely :) -> Chrome Ad Filtering In Action: The first examples of ads being blocked on sites with intrusive ads (desktop and mobile). It's live in Canary now and will be rolling out to the stable version o, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
- Google Chrome Ad Blocking "How it Works", WebmasterWorld
- ICANN Says .corp, .home, .mail Proposing Never to Release as TLDs, WebmasterWorld
- Yeah, that's gotta be tricky too. It's easy to dismiss that as housekeeping when you don't have to do it, but it can be a lot of complex work (and org-chart-navigation :-)).… https://t.co/BkZ7NROOeP, John Mueller on Twitter
