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:
- Did Google Update Their Search Algorithm Over The Weekend?
Over the weekend, I've been getting lots of questions from webmasters if I noticed a Google update starting late Friday into Saturday and Sunday. Truth is, yea, there is higher than normal webmaster chatter around changes in the desktop search results... - Google: Not All Tag Pages Should Be Blocked From Google's Index
In the SEO world, there is a lot of strong feelings about what should be indexed and what should not be indexed by Google. SEO is now about removing content, removing links... - Google: The Mobile Friendly Algorithm Does Not Affect Your AdWords Quality Score
Kate O'Donovan from the Google AdWords team in Dublin confirmed that the mobile friendly algorithm that began rolling out last week has not impact on your AdWords quality score... - Bing Now With Long Form Answers At The Top Of The Search Results
Spotted by Romit Mehta and posted on Twitter, Bing is now also providing detailed long-form answers at the top of their search results... - Google Answer Box Providing Irrelevant Answers From Blog Comments
Typically, Google's answer box at the top of the search results are too helpful. So helpful... - Yahoo Company Wide Photo From 1990s
Marissa Mayer, now the CEO of Yahoo, shared a photo on Tumblr of the first company-wide photo Yahoo took, which was back in the 90s. Yahoo was founded in 1994, so this photo looks like it was taken b
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Please bring back the old drop down menu in Webmaster Tools With this new one…, Google+ - Pedro Dias
- Google Inc. Q1, 2015 Results, Revenue was $17.3 billion, WebmasterWorld
- Twitter Introduces The Best of Tweets With "Highlights", WebmasterWorld
- This week's search trends? You got it, dude! g.co/go/trends-apr24 #GoogleTrends, Google+ - Google
