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: No Plan For Structured Data API
Google's John Mueller said he is not aware of Google working on or having any plans on working on an API for the structured data testing tool. He asked the webmaster why and what would he use the API for... - Google & The Trust Project: Help Identify Trustworthy News
In an effort to help with weed out fake news stories and make sure their news results, and core search results... - Google: It Doesn't Hurt If Your Site Ranks With Its IP Address
Imagine instead of seeing your web site address, i.e. domain.com listed in the Google search results for your brand name, instead you see an IP address listed. I am sure some of you have stumbled across this in the past... - Google Adds "Watch Movie" Tab To Knowledge Card
Google has added a new tab to the movie knowledge panel/card for how to watch the movie. The tab says "watch movie" and will show you where you can watch the movie. In the example below, it gives you two Google sources... - Google's Android Candy Drone Wins Lightbulb Award
Danny Sullivan posted a photo on Twitter last week of something called the Lightbulb Award, where his team won that award by making an Android drone dispense candy. It is called the Android Candy Dron
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Twitter Tweetstorm Tests Appearing in Android App, WebmasterWorld
- Certain countries forcing Google to ban NSFW sites in SERP, WebmasterWorld
- Google to double presence in Japan, WebmasterWorld
- site: query shows wrong domain in some results, WebmasterWorld
