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: Content From APIs Are Copied Content
This may be super obvious, but sometimes the most obvious stuff is not as obvious as you'd like. Content pulled from an API or data feed is technically copied content... - Bing Drops Sidebar Text Ads But I Still See Them
Bing announced a couple weeks ago that they have removed the search text ads from the side bar of their search results. Bing wrote "we have decided to remove sidebar text ads on our Bing inventory in the United States on March 26th... - Google My Business Adds Service Menus
You no longer need to sell food to get menus on your Google Maps or Google Local panel, now you just need to add your menu of services to your Google My Business "info" section and presto... - Google Rolling Out Featured Snippet Refinement Bubbles?
Over the past few days, I've been getting messages about people seeing the featured snippets query refinements which we covered as a test back in September of last year. Google also announced these in January. Well... - Fili Wiese - 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. Fili Wiese lives in Berlin, Germany, although native to Dutch... - Omar Sharif Google Logo For The Egyptian Actor
Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the Egyptian actor... - Google Waterloo Has A Wall Of Clocks
I know this is probably from some movie or historical event, but I am not sure where or what, so go beat me up in the comments. At the Google Waterloo office in Canada there is a wall/section of just
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Bing starts suggesting products you might be looking for but it doesn't always get it right..., Fabrizio Ballarini on Twitter
- Facebook to Alert Users Impacted by Cambridge Analytica Scandal, WebmasterWorld
- Ideally aim for keeping links between the same "device"-type content, so desktop to desktop. mobile to mobile, and .. well, amp to amp. This includes visible links, but also rel next/prev/hreflang link elements & s, John Mueller on Twitter
- Just noticed this nifty little Google Posts shortcut. The "create a post" icon is visible when looking at your managed photos in GMB. Automatically pulls the photo into the post.… https://t.co/WpTjb9NCP0, Colan Nielsen on Twitter
- Calling All Past Cre8asiteforums Moderators and Staff, Cre8asite Forums
