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:
- AppleBot Confirmed: Apple To Get Into Web Search?
I reported at Search Engine Land that Apple has finally confirmed the rumors of their search engine crawler/spider. They named it AppleBot. Apple says it is being used "used by products" adding specifically "including Siri and Spotlight Suggestions." But that can be used by more... - Google: We Will Improve Our Mobile Friendly Algorithm & Add Mobile Page Speed
Google's Gary Illyes responded to feedback on Twitter on the topic of the new mobile friendly algorithms, which is fully rolled out. In short, the webmaster said... - Google Answers Link To Dead Bankrupt RadioShack Page
If you search for [transferring iphone contacts to new iphone] in Google, Google will give you one of their smart answers that looks like this: But if you try to click through to the page, you will be presented with an error saying the page is dead... - Google Local Results With Stars To Bookmark Places In Google Maps
As reported at Search Engine Land, Google is testing (as I cannot see it myself) adding large stars to the local knowledge graph box in the web search results. So if you search for local relevant results, and if a single listing shows up at the top right of the page... - Google Actively Working To Get Better At Language Support For Search Quality
Google's John Mueller was asked in a Google+ hangout a couple days ago about the sometimes poor handling of Google understanding non-English languages... - Google Super Heros
Not sure what is going on here but this is a picture posted by Google engineer Eider Oliveira (in the picture as Thor) and many of the rest of the crew from the Avengers movie. All Googlers, I believ
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- "Time spent download a page" doesn't match since 4/21, WebmasterWorld
- Google Acquires Time Scheduling System Business, Timeful Inc., WebmasterWorld
- Tracking Twitter and LinkedIn Social Interactions in Google Analytics…, Google+ - Google Analytics
- @victorylionroar No there isn't; you'll need to put pages into the Mobile-Friendly test individually., Google Webmasters on Twitter
- A Little Bit Of Everything - Google Vs Bing, International Domains And, HighRankings Forums
- Google Local Hangout: Problems, Tips & Tricks with the Google TCs, localsearchforum.com
- Google Phone Support Told Me I can Ignore Duplicates, localsearchforum.com
