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 Displaying A Featured Snippet From User Generated Comments
Bill Elward spotted a featured snippet in Google that doesn't use the primary content on the page but rather pulls from the comments section of the page. He posted the example on Twitter. The query is [how much is gap insurance] and what comes up for Bill is a page from bankrate... - Android GoogleBot Smartphone User-Agent Did Go Live This Week
A month ago we reported that Google is dropping the iPhone user agent for the Android version and that would happen on April 18th. I actually checked this morning to see if the Google Search Console removed the "upcoming" version so webmasters can check to get ready... - Google Maps Local Pack Showing Obvious Duplicates Listings
I love the Local Search Forum because these SEOs are so knee deep into the local search results that it is amazing what they pick up on. One local SEO said she thought that Google had a handle on not showing duplicate listings in the local pack... - Google: Recover From A Manual Action? You Still May Have To Recover From An Algorithmic Penalty
In the Google Hangout this past Friday on Google+ with John Mueller, John discussed how manual actions and algorithmic penalties are different... - Google AdWords Order IDs Now In AdWords Conversion Tags For Better Conversion Metrics
Google announced on Google+ that they have added a new feature named Order IDs that allow you to add a unique identifier into your AdWords conversion tags to help reduce duplicate conversion data... - Google's Tel Aviv Office Hangs Israel Flags On Outside Of Building
Here is a picture of a man hanging a massive Israel flag on the outside of the really large office building that Google Tel Aviv rents. The building is called Electra Tower and before Passover they d
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google crawling Angular JS site?, WebmasterWorld
- Urgent posts (GPCBatsignal), The Google Advertiser Community
- Bing Shopping Products Ads Now in the U.K., WebmasterWorld
- AppleNewsBot, WebmasterWorld
- Boost Your Performance with Ad Extensions!, The Google Advertiser Community
- Danny Sullivan Marks 20 Years Covering Search, Cre8asite Forums
- E.U. Charges Google For Abusing its Monopoly on Android OS, WebmasterWorld
- YandexMobileBot, WebmasterWorld
- [Apr 21 11:00 PT / 2 ET] How to position mobile to..., The Google Advertiser Community
