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:
- Bing Image Search Too Slow To Drop Removed Images?
Most image search engines, including Google, are very slow to pick up on new images but removing images that go 404, page not found... - Google: Most CMSs Have XML Sitemap Implementations & 3rd Party Tools Unnecessary
In the early days of when Google first introduced XML Sitemaps, Google also a collection of 3rd party sitemap generation solutions. That page now shows a notice that the top that reads "this Google Code project has been deprecated and is no longer maintained... - Google Explains What Near Duplicate Content Is
Google's Gary Illyes explained what he meant is the term "near duplicate content." Gary posted it on Twitter saying near duplicate content can be thought of as "a piece of content that was slightly changed... - Bing Visual Search
Earlier this month, Bing announced a new feature within image search to do visual searches based on selecting portions of an image that comes up in your image search results... - Test: Google Hotel Price Slider With Hotel Price Graph
Google doesn't stop doing these local, espesially hotel specific tests. This one shows the price slide filter but with a graph overlay of the prices of the hotels on the graph... - A Bing Hot Air Balloon
The other week, Bing snapped some pictures of their #reachthepeak Bing partners event. This shows Bing styled hot air balloons ready to take off. This was posted on Twitter and Bing Ads wrote Summit
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @spammack @methode Googlebot's got no time to watch TV, that link's not gonna pass any pagerank even if it had a rel=dofollow shown., John Mueller on Twitter
- Grab attention with your headlines and include a strong call-to-action. More tips on creating effective mobile ads: https://t.co/yOBIkKGzLV https://t.co/VCx29QvXIx, Google AdWords on Twitter
- ICYMI: This week we welcomed 26 computer science students from Howard Univers..., Google+ - Life at Google
