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 Now Sending Mobile-First Indexing Enabled Notifications
Google is now starting to send out notifications about sites switching to the mobile-first indexing process. It is funny... - Share A Story About How Matt Cutts Has Helped You
No one can argue that Matt Cutts has been one of the most significant personalities in our industry. Not just because of how he balanced the Google vs SEO line. Not just because of how he was able to provide more transparency about Google's efforts over the years... - Google Featured Snippets Expand By Category/Topic
David Gray spotted and posted on Twitter a featured snippet that expands and has multiple drop down expansion menus. If you search for [garage conversion] on mobile, you probably will see it for yourself... - Google To Expand Mobile-First Indexing Again? In Upcoming Weeks.
This mobile first indexing launch, which supposedly began rolling out a month ago to a wider set of sites... - Google Image Search Bug: Only Some Images Are Loading?
Image credit to Shutterstock There are a bunch of complaints in the Google Web Search Help forums about a bug with Google's image search where the images are not fully loading... - Samantha Noble: 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. Samantha Noble is 34 years old and lives in South Coast of the UK not too far from Portsmouth with her son... - Google Doodle For Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for Johann Carl Friedrich Gauà on his 241st birthday. Johann is a German mathematician who made his first groundbreaking mathematical discovery as a teenager... - Google Has A Human Size Bird Cage
The Google office in Hong Kong has a bird cage that can fit a human. I guess it is for another sitting area but why not make it look like a bird cage? So that is what Google did. This was posted on
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Big news for podcasters. Will come from podcast metadata -> Google's Podcasts team is working on bringing more audio content into the search results, Google Assistant, and other Google properties: https://t.co/jcyfnnT19t… https:, Glenn Gabe on Twitter
- Google Analytics new T&C in response to GDPR?, WebmasterWorld
- New features in Information Bar in Earth for Web, Google Maps Help
- Yes, we prefer https over http for canonicalization, all else being equal.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Will the new GDPR change how Google views and tracks links from EU?, WebmasterWorld
