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: We Sometimes Show Credit For Knowledge Graph & Answers When...
Gianluca Fiorelli asked on Twitter why does Google sometimes show the source of their answers in the knowledge graph or quick answers and then sometimes does not... - Google Now Using Lakh Numbering Format For Estimated Search Results
One of our Indian readers from Arindam Inc. sent me a screen shot via email of Google now using the Lakh numbering format for the estimated search results count. A lakh or lac is a unit in the South Asian numbering system equal to one hundred thousand (100... - Google Shares Common Webmaster Issues With SearchAction Schema & Sitelinks Search
About ten days ago, Google revamped their search within a site feature and renamed it Sitelinks Search. They also gave webmasters a way to communicate that they have an internal search that should be used when using the Sitelinks search. - Google AdWords Ad Preview & Diagnosis Tool Technical Issues
There are confirmed reports at Google AdWords Help forums of a bug with the Google AdWords Ad Preview and Diagnosis tools. Some are reporting that when testing the localization within the tool, the tool is showing that the ads are not running, when they are indeed running... - Google Malware Notice Only On Organic Result?
Colin McDermott posted on Twitter that Google shows a malware warning on the organic free search result for a site but not on the paid search ad... - GoogleBot Stock In The Woods
Google's John Mueller posted a picture of a white 3D printed GoogleBot, this one stock in a bunch of leaves and woods. John posted it with the message, "has Googlebot gotten stuck crawling your site?
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Family Hackathon - The Next Generation of Coders We were fortunate…, Google+ - Mark Louie
- Is it time to retire rel="nofollow" ?, WebmasterWorld
- U.S. Government Threatened Yahoo With $250,000 per day Fine If It Didn't Release Data, WebmasterWorld