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: Sometimes We Pick Up Wrong Dates & Display Them Wrong In The Snippets
Google's John Mueller addressed the ongoing issues and complaints about how Google displays dates in the search results snippets and how sometimes, maybe more often than anyone wants, the dates in the snippets are wrong... - Google Site Command Searches Return Definitions & Knowledge Panels
Do a site command search and add either a normal query after it or another search operator after it... - Google Posts Adds Product & Offer Options
Google quietly announced on Twitter that they added two new Google Posts types within Google My Business. Now you can post about products and/or offers including the what's new and event posts... - Google Tests Video Carousels In Desktop Search Results Again
Once again, Google is testing video carousels in desktop search - we saw it a bit over a year ago... - Dr. Virginia Apgar Gets A Google Logo For Her Apgar Score
Today on Google's home page is a special Google logo, Doodle, for the woman who invented the first test you were ever given in this world - the Apgar score... - Camp Google
Believe it or not, there is a Camp Google. Camp Google is an internal events team that throws events like GoogleWeen and Take your kids/parents to work day and more events. Here is them at a Camp Go
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- BING Places for Business allows you to import GMB data, just added 10 client listings in about 4 clicks. Edits required after import: - edit url and remove utm - add images - add cats Is this new? @JoyanneHawkins @mblumentha, Andy Simpson on Twitter
- Curious how smart assistants / speakers might bubble up audio content? To get a rare glimpse at the future of search, check out @dan_shure 's awesome podcast with Steve Pratt at https://t.co/DAURkghawv, John Mueller on Twitter
- Make more time for mealtime with Custom Routines. Here’s how to cook up a Routine from scratch with just a few of the #GoogleAssistant’s 1 million Actions. 🍴… https://t.co/TWIqvWthGd, Google on Twitter
- Now when you flag a review inside the @GoogleMyBiz dashboard, they send you an email confirming they received your request.… https://t.co/25LLISiGMT, Joy Hawkins on Twitter
- If you block your content from being loaded at all (instead of, say, an overlaid div or a banner), you'll block it from being indexed. If that's the approach a site takes, then we'll index what we can access...… h, John Mueller on Twitter
- That doesn't change anything for SEO.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- The Bing Agency Awards will be September 20th in NYC, but you don't need to wait: nominations are open now. Who will you nominate? Submit your nominations by July 3rd, you don't want to miss out. https://t.co/ROMQ8ZWWNp… https://t, Bing Ads on Twitter
- Twitter Sold User Data Too, WebmasterWorld
- URLs with hashtag not getting indexed, Google Webmaster Help
- We will be hosting conferences across 11 cities in India to help local language publishers and webmasters better understand how they can make their content easily accessible to the growing number of Internet users across, Juan Felipe Rincon on Twitter
