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 Shows Answer Without Any Search Results
Google is showing answers in the search results without showing any organic listings or ads or anything but the answer. Yehoshua Coren posted on Twitter a screen shot of him going to Google and Google returning the answer and a button to show search results... - Google Image Search Adds Captions To Search Results From Your Page Titles
Google announced yesterday they have added captions to the image search results in Google Image search. They get the captions by using the title attribute from the web page the image is on... - Google Automatically Ignores Many Links Including Amazon Affiliate Links
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that Google does not "pass signals through a lot of different kinds of links," when asked if Google automatically nofollow Amazon affiliate links. He added "so I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case here... - Google Sets Aggressive Limits On Request Indexing Fetch Tool
As many of you know, Google has set new quotas for the Fetch as Google submit to index feature because of spam and abuse. But it still seems there is a cat and mouse game... - Greg Gifford - 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. Greg Gifford is 45 years old and lives in Allen, Texas with his wife, sons ages 13 and 8, and daughter age 4... - Pi Day Google Doodle Celebrates 30th Anniversary
The Google Doodle on the home page today on March 14th celebrates the 30th anniversary of Pi Day. The day is celebrated every year on March 14th (3.14). The day is dedicated to the mathematical constant. 30 years ago today is was recognized by physicist Larry Shaw... - Google Book Tree
Here is a book tree at the Google Tel Aviv office. The picture was posted on Instagram by Jessica Nadine Barlow who said she got a tour of the office there in Israel. Oh Google, your office designs.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- How to Leverage Real-Time Reporting for Your Business #measure #analytics "T..., Google+ - Google Analytics
- Report: Google's Larry Page Sponsoring Air Taxi Development, WebmasterWorld
- Rolling out today, we're bringing the #GoogleAssistant to iPads → https://t.co/7tLFwuanrZ https://t.co/KGwk1eMJR8, Google on Twitter
- Site-level impressions (eg, when looking at impressions) should focus on the "top most" URL rather than the unique number of URLs shown in a search results page. If you look at a per-URL level, we'll show them sepate, John Mueller on Twitter
- Yep, that's fine. It's useful to get feedback on duplicate titles & descriptions if you accidentally use them on totally separate pages, but for paginated series, it's kinda normal & expected to use the same.… ht, John Mueller on Twitter
