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: We Do Take Action On Rich Snippet Spam
Google hosted a special hangout with John Mueller and a colleague from the Dublin office who works on structured data and rich snippets. During the hangout, at the 43:50 minute mark... - Google AdWords Tests Capitalizing First Letter In Display URL?
Gordon Campbell posted images on Twitter of Google testing making the first letter of the display URL in the AdWords ad results capital. He said that in the AdWords backend, ad management area, the display URL is completely lowercase... - Google Warns: Automated Queries On Google Is Against The Terms Of Service
Everyone knows that tools that scrap and do automated queries are against Google's terms of service. In fact, Google has blocked tools in the past from doing them. But many many tools continue to do it... - Google Image Search Now To Use Product Schema Markup
Aaron Bradley posted on Google+ that the product schema page has added that it can be used not just in the web results but also in Google image search results. I checked the old and new page and he is indeed right... - Google: The First Expedition To The South Pole Doodle
Today on the Google home page in many countries, no the US (although initially it was set to launch globally) is a special animated Google Doodle, aka special Google logo... - Waymo: New Name For Google's Self Driving Car
Yesterday, Google announced they haves spun off the Google self driving car project into its own company named Waymo. Here is a photo of the new logo on the self driving car from Alice on Instagram.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Google Signs Deal to Install Servers in Cuba, WebmasterWorld
- Microsoft Announces Cortana Skills Kit and Cortana Devices SDK, WebmasterWorld
- Report: Google Alphabet Self Driving Car Program Scaled Back, WebmasterWorld
