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's Cache Date Over A Month Old Now...
There are several complaints in various forums, including WebmasterWorld, Google Webmaster Help and Twitter. In short, the cache date shown by Google, for many sites, shows dates over a month old. Typically the dates are fresher than that... - Break Up Google? US Say No, EU Says Yes.
Let me quickly catch you up on the timeline on this story. The European Parliament wants to draft a proposal to force Google to break the company up into multiple parts because of its alleged anti-trust practices, according to Reuters... - Google: Is Your Hidden Content Is Relevant To Users, Don't Hide It From Them.
Sometimes I just laugh reading the advice Googlers have to give webmasters. Case in point: Google's John Mueller responds to a thread in the Google Webmaster Help forums about properly how to use hidden content and not get in trouble with Google... - Google Mobile Test Fail Because Blocking Or Cloaking GoogleBot
The other day, Google launched the mobile testing tool and since then... - When Obama & I Became King Of The United States For The Day
Via Hacker News, yesterday, the search results quick direct answer from Google for [King Of United States] returned a Google Answer saying it was Barack Obama... - At Google Spam Office: Yahoo Swag
Gary Illyes from Google posted a picture on Google+ of two colored eye balls and wrote "Keeping an eye on the Internets." Yep, he is part of the search quality team, spam team, tasked at making the
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- I'm as jaded as you can get when it comes to Google's search improvements. I…, Google+ - Avinash
- ITU 2014 Report: 3 Billion People Using Internet, WebmasterWorld
- Duplicate Content & A Drop down Menu Causing Poor SERP Results?, WebmasterWorld
- Report: Microsoft's Bing and Yahoo Pitching For Apple's Safari Browser Default Search, WebmasterWorld
- Tools for Tracking Google SERPs and 7 Pack Changes, localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com
