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 Analytics Benchmarking Report
Google Analytics announced a new report that is rolling out to Google Analytics users who opt in to "share anonymously with Google and others" setting named the Benchmarking Report. The Benchmarking Report will show you well your site is doing amongst your industry specific... - Google Knowledge Graph For B-List Celebrities
Last night on Search Engine Land I reported via Samuel Edwards from Tenthwave Digital that Google has a new Knowledge Graph box... - Google Webmaster Tools API Gets Infrastructure Update
In 2008, Google enabled an API for Webmaster Tools, since then they've been adding functionality to it slowly... - Google May Hide Your Second Line Of Ad Text On Mobile Search
Google announced that starting on October 15, 2014, they may or may not decide to show your second line of ad text on mobile search results. Google said this will be done to make the ads "more relevant and useful information to your customers." - Google Robots.txt File Updated & Google Stops Indexing Itself
Yesterday we reported Google was indexing itself and Google caught wind of it and Gary from Google commented on my Google+ post telling me they are looking into it. Last night at around 6pm EDT... - Everyone Wants His Google Hat
Addy Osmani posted a picture of his desk at Google and instead of people gravitating to the cartoon scientist, everyone is starring at the Google Hat. People want it. It isn't available in the Googl
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Algorithm is having fun (visits keep going up and down), WebmasterWorld
- Google Announces AdSense for Google Shopping Campaigns, DigitalPoint Forums
- Location Extensions - A Week's Worth of Wonderful ..., AdWords Community
- Google's European antitrust settlement is canned, WebmasterWorld
- New research proves the power of data-driven approaches, improving consumer…, Google+ - Google Ads
