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 Friendly Label Goes International
It looks like Google is now rolling out the mobile friendly labels globally and in all languages... - Google App Indexing: 15% Of Android Searches Return Deep Links
Google posted on several blogs yesterday an update on app indexing which includes how tos and some stats. Here are two interesting stats: (1) For signed-in users, 15% of Google searches on Android now return deep links to apps through App Indexing... - Google Lightbox Ads Now Work On Mobile
Google announced they have enabled their lightbox ads to work across all screen sizes, from desktop, to tablet, to mobile phones. The new Lightbox ads are now available for all AdWords advertisers globally and work across all devices... - Google Speeds Up Mobile Search By 100-150 Milliseconds
Google's speed guru, Ilya Grigorik, announced on Google+ that they've made Google mobile search a bit faster... - Google AdWords Adds Custom Columns
Google announced on Google+ that they've enabled a way for advertisers to customize the columns they want to see in their reports. Google said they are "introducing custom columns to AdWords reporting... - Google Employee Christmas Gift: The Android Wear Watch
Daniel Waisberg from the Google Analytics team, based in Google's London office, shared a picture of what Google gave him, and likely other Google employees for Christmas this year. Yep, an LG G Andr
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- A ping to +John Mueller to fix it soon. Nothing so dangerous, but probably to…, Google+ - Robert Ramirez
- For many people, gender identity is more complex than just "male" or "female."…, Google+
- New YouTube app on Apple TV, YouTube Help
- Hangouts: now smarter, faster, and a lot more fun If you’re like me, you want…, Google+ - Rhett Robinson
- Merry Christmas from Google WMT, Google Webmaster Help
- My company is innapropriately filtered because of Google Safe Search, Google Webmaster Help
