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:
- New Google AdWords Terms & Conditions
Google earlier this month updated the terms and conditions for their massive ad network, Google AdWords. Google sent out emails to their advertisers... - Google: Our Algorithms Don't Look At Disavow Files
Google's Gary Illyes said on Twitter that Google doesn't train their algorithms to find spam by fetching and processing disavow files across the web... - Google Featured Snippets Relocates AMP Icon
Earlier this month we reported that Google started to show AMP links for featured snippets in their search results. Well, the AMP icon... - Google: We Do Not Manually Review All Spam Reports
Yesterday in the Google Hangout at the 21:05 mark into the video, John Mueller said Google does not manually review all spam... - New Google iOS App Has Related Content Bar
Google announced Tuesday they launched a new update to their iOS search app that has a new content bar. The content bar appears as the user scrolls... - Google Dance Tokyo Group Shot
Here is a photo from the folks that attended the Google Dance in Tokyo from a few weeks ago. It was posted by Masahiro Tsuji on Twitter... - Programming Note: Rosh Hashanah 5778 - Shana Tova!
Tonight is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year and I will be offline the next two days. Specifically, I will be offline Thursday and Friday...
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @rustybrick @mavenseo @methode I said if Barry didn't write at least 20 blog posts about what he says, I didn't do my job :), Jennifer Slegg on Twitter
- Discontinuing paid content on December 1, 2017, YouTube Help
- Google May Open Up Ad Space to Competitors, WebmasterWorld
- We proudly present the new Photos feature in Google Earth Web and Mobile, Google Maps Help
- @AlanBleiweiss @JohnMu @balibones I thought we already launched some improvements for site: search for signed in users. I hope I didn't preannounce things 😳, Gary Illyes on Twitter
This post was scheduled to go live today but was written earlier - I am currently offline today.
