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:
- Ben Gomes To Take Over Search At Google, Giannandrea Steps Down
News broke last night that Google's current head of search, John Giannandrea, was stepping down and replacing him are two Google veterans Jeff Dean will lead Google's AI efforts... - Google: Structured Data Doesn't Give You A Ranking Boost But Can Help Rankings
John Mueller of Google said on Twitter yesterday that although structured data, by itself, does not give you a ranking boost, it can help Google understand your content and thus help you rank in Google... - Luke Fitzgerald - The Search Community Honors You
- Google: Index Status & Index Coverage Reports Are Compiled Slightly Differently
Google's John Mueller said in a Reddit thread that while the index status report in the old Google Search Console and index coverage report in the new Google Search Console are the same... - Google Rickrolls SEOs With Recrawl Now Button
I cannot tell you how many notifications on email, social media and other methods around Google added a "recrawl now" button that leads to a video, it is a bug, it is weird...
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- John Harrison Google Logo Depicts His Marine Chronometer
Today on Google's home page is a Google Doodle, special Google logo... - Googlebot Swag For Google Dance Tokyo
Gary Illyes from Google is at the Google Japan office for the past couple weeks, preparing for the Google Dance Tokyo event (amongst other things) and he shared this photo of some of the preparations
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- You can now add a description to your Google My Business listing! The description is a chance to tell prospective customers your story and what makes your business unique. Learn how to add a description in our Help Center:, Google My Business on Twitter
- Yes, we'll still show the device-appropriate version in search results (as is the case now too). Mobile searchers would see m-dot URL, desktop searchers would see desktop-URL.… https://t.co/rIwqTufek0, John Mueller on Twitter
- 500 Internal Server Error just from navigating YouTube.com, YouTube Help
- An iframe is not a link.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- As a follow up to yesterday's article, today we'd like to share with you how ..., Google+ - AdSense
- Mark Zuckerberg Explains How Facebook . to Kill Alternative Media, WebmasterWorld
