Daily Search Forum Recap: July 6, 2018

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:

Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Speed Update, AJAX Crawl, Local Search, & More
It was a slower week than the norm, but that is to be expected with it being the July 4th holiday this week. I published the monthly Google webmaster report, so catch up on the month over there...
Wired On Keyword Or Data Voids In Google Search, The Evil Unicorn
A Wired story named The Complexity of Simply Searching For Medical Advice came out yesterday and is getting a lot of attention - in short it talks about how Google deals with returning quality information in search...
SEO Challenge Google Assistant Quiz
What if you can test your SEO intelligence by asking the Google Assistant...
Google Stops Crawling AJAX Crawling Scheme "For The Most Part"
In May, we reported that by the end of Q2 the AJAX crawling scheme will be going away. Well, Q2 has come and gone and has it gone away completely...
Google Updates Their hreflang Official Documentation
Google has recently updated their official documentation for hreflang help. Prior, it only had content around using language annotations, supported language values and a couple of common mistakes...
Professional Beach Volleyball Players Play At Google
Most of you know that Google has a beach volleyball court right in the center of their main Google office, the GooglePlex - they've had it for over a decade. But just recently, two professional beach