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 AdWords Rolling Out New Green Outlined Ad Label?
Google may be rolling out a new AdWords ad label now, the one we spotted a month ago, the green outlined ad label. I received dozens of notifications about this new ad label in the past 24 hours and those reports are increasing... - Maile Ohye Leaves Google After ~12 Years
Maile Ohye quietly announced on Google+ that she is leaving Google. She started with Google almost 12 years ago in September 2005, she was instrumental... - Google: Stop Using URL Fragments
Google wants you to stop using URL fragments for your content. Google's John Mueller said this on Twitter this morning... - Google My Business Guidelines Updated For Service-Area & Virtual Offices
Google has updated their Google My Business guidelines specifically to clarify how a business should list their address for service-area businesses and virtual offices. The new section is in the expandable "address" section and titled "Service-area businesses... - Google To Discontinue Google Site Search
Google is discontinuing their their Google Site Search product, which is the paid version of using Google search technology to power your internal site search feature. They are telling customers to use the free custom search engine version instead... - Google Cloud Umbrella
Louis Gray saw the virtual indoor Google clouds and said that is why he walks around with his Google Cloud umbrella when in the office. He shared this photo of his umbrella on Twitter to prove me wron
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Apple Sets Out its Appeal to E.U.'s €13 billion Tax Bill, WebmasterWorld
- RT @ajayn23: Rolling out small fix to Dashboards in the new GA UI; you can now sort by date, name, type, and filter to shared/private dashb…, Google Analytics on Twitter
- @RyanRicketts @googlewmc @methode We do support JSON-LD for breadcrumbs. I'll double-check on the docs update., John Mueller on Twitter
- Apply to purchase an #io17 ticket starting TOMORROW until Feb 27, 5PM PST on ..., Google+ - Google Developers
- Are Google My Business Guidelines & Spam Algos Working? - Online Ownership, localsearchforum.com
- Price sensitive travelers can now find Basic Economy airfare options with sev..., Google+ - Google Travel