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:
- Was There A Google Algorithm Update On Monday & Tuesday? Unsure.
Most of the automated tracking tools, with the exception of Algoroo, really showed massive spikes and volatility on either Monday or Tuesday, April 24th or 25th, of this week. The issue is, the chatter in the SEO community is not correlating to those tools... - Google Owl Update Promotes Authoritative Content For Fake News Queries
Yesterday, Google officially announced both an algorithm update and procedure changes for managing search results for fake news like content, which Google calls "offensive or clearly misleading content." Danny Sullivan, by far... - Google Adds More Granular Review Filtering In Local Listings
Sergey Alakov was again, the first, if not one of the first, to spot this local reviews change - where when you see a local pack in the Google results, you can now filter those listings by reviews in a more granular manner. So now you can filter by half stars instead of just full stars... - Google Hotel Booking Interface Testing Carousel Layout
Google loves carousels, they just really love them. Now they are testing the carousel user interface for the local listing user interface for hotel booking. Sergey Alakov, who else... - Google Doodle For Cassini Spacecraft As It Photos Saturn & Its Rings
Today on Google's home page is a special spacecraft Doodle, Google logo, to mark when the Cassini spacecraft begins taking photos and measurements between Saturn and its rings... - Google Office Hallway Race Track
Jo Dethlefs posted on Instagram some photos of the Google Hamburg office, including this shot of one of the hallways designed as a race track. I guess Google wants their employees to race to their of
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- For AMP Article rich results (https://t.co/Eom7FvnszC) Google now allows an Organization to be used as author https://t.co/3sPaDbLJdh https://t.co/0IKpZheGI0, Aaron Bradley on Twitter
- The Weather Company And GSK Are Back To Track Allergy Locations, Local Search Forum
- Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales Starts Wikitribune to Help Fight Fake News, WebmasterWorld
