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 Mobile Ranking Signals Still Use Many Desktop Signals
In a Google hangout video, at 18 minutes and 50 seconds in, Google's John Mueller answered a question around which desktop signals are used for mobile ranking as well... - US Court Gives Google Free Rein Over Search Results Layout
Gigaom reports Google has won a US court case in San Francisco court saying Google has the right to arrange the search results as they see fit. Clearly... - Google: Stop Using PageRank As A Metric, We Won't Be Updating It In The Future
The last Google Toolbar PageRank update was 11 months and 18 days ago, almost a year ago, on December 6, 2013. Google's John Mueller has told in a video hangout that there probably won't be PageRank updates in the future... - Google Contributor Program Will Fail
Google launched a new "experiment" named Contributor by Google. The concept is you pay a monthly fee to Google, Google will then remove some of the ads you see across the web, in exchange... - Google Issues Massive Manual Actions In Poland For Link Networks
Over the weekend, savvy webmasters and SEOs noticed a huge spike in complaints around manual actions issued within Google Webmaster Tools in the Polish regions. Google has indeed penalized a large link network in Poland. - Google Bubble Soccer
Did you ever hear of or play bubble soccer? If not, head over to the GooglePlex, Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, and get into one of the games. Google shared this photo of Googler
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Announcing Google Maps for Mobile on Android, version 9.1, Google Maps Help
- Things we learned from search this week: 1. Jaden and Willow Smith know what…, Google+ - Google
- AdWords Holiday Checklist, AdWords Community
- Our doodle for French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s 150th birthday draws…, Google+ - Google
