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 News First Redesign In 7 Years; Massive Complaints
Google News announced they have pushed out a new redesign for their Google News site last night. It has been seven years since the last major redesign and that time it didn't go too well. In this new design... - Google Won't Confirm The June 25th Update; It's "Just Random Chatter"
As you know, we are now at a point where we strongly believe there was a Google update over the weekend after tracking the update for about 24-48 hours... - Googlers Submit 20-50 Search Result Complaints Per Day
You all know about the "send feedback" link on the footer of the Google search results page. You can go there to submit your two-cents to Google about the quality of those search results... - Google: Use 301 Redirects When You Have A 1:1 Replacement
Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that you should use a 301 redirect really only when there is a one to one relationship between the URL you are redirecting from and the URL you are redirecting it to... - Google: Search Algorithm Does Not Look At Google Analytics Data
Google again said they do not use Google Analytics data for their search ranking algorithm. Gary Illyes from Google had to say it again... - Google Server Room - Very Organized
Here is a photo from Brian Ussery of one of the Google server rooms, I assume this one hosts something important but not that important for Brian to get such close access to it. Just look how organiz
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @danny_taywitter @hightechme24 @melanienathan Just checked: yes, it's [RankBrain] launched in Hindi as well, Gary Illyes on Twitter
- And the answer. It's a SCOTOMA! (Check out how I figured this out...), Google+ - Dan Russell
- Our Growing Top Contributor Family!, The Google Advertiser Community
- We'd like to chat with some #Zurich area folks running websites, especially with CMSs. Interested in visiting Google tomorrow? Let me know!, John Mueller on Twitter
