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:
- Thumbtack Apologizes After Google Penalty; Asking For Link Removals From Businesses
This weekend, Google issued a manual action on Thumbtack, a Google Capital backed company, for unnatural links pointing to their web site. I received confirmation of the penalty earlier this week from their co-founder, Jonathan Swanson... - Matt Cutts Reminisces About Old SES Events
If you follow Google's Matt Cutts on Twitter, you'd know he is on a mission to clean out all his old files. To my surprise... - Google Mistakenly Labels Some Sites As Harmful
A webmaster posted in the Google Webmaster Help forums about his site containing the "The site ahead contains harmful programs" warning... - Google AdWords Reverses VAT Settings
Truth is, I am not sure how new this is, but I am seeing questions about it in the Google AdWords Help forum. In short, advertisers not based in the US may have to withhold and pay their own VAT or Value Added Tax. Katie O... - Larry Page & Sundar Pichai At Google I/O
Kris Carlon who attended Google I/O caught Google executives Larry Page and Sundar Pichai chatting with folks at Google I/O. He snapped a picture and said "A nice little chat with +Sundar Pichai and
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Googlebot crawls /m/ by default?, WebmasterWorld
- Big spike in Google Crawl, WebmasterWorld
- Did Google hit my images for Panda?, WebmasterWorld
- What Does The End Of Yahoo Maps Really Mean?, localsearchforum.com
- Google update again during the last week?, blackhatworld.com
- I'm working at Google now. It's my second week!, Google+ - Greg Linden
- This week's Search Challenge is for the Art Historian in you! Viewing Renoir,…, Google+ - Dan Russell
