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:
- Bing No Longer Powers Facebook Web Search Results
Reuters reported over the weekend that Facebook has dropped their Microsoft Bing partnership to power the web search results within Facebook search. Facebook has stopped including results from Microsoft Bing search engine on its social networking site... - Google: New TLDs Have No Inherent Search Ranking Advantage
Back in 2012, Google's Matt Cutts said clearly that new TLDs do not rank better than any other TLD. He was killing a myth being spread by some domain name sellers. - SEOs Required To Take Polygraph Lie Detector Tests
Jenny Mugridge posted at Cre8asite Forums saying that her former employer is now requiring all new and existing SEOs in the company to take polygraph tests... - Google Brings Back The Google News Archives
Google has brought back the ability to search the news archive this weekend... - Google's Double Rainbow
As you know, Google had a bit of rain the other day and after the rain died down, a rainbow appeared, well - a double rainbow appeared at Google. Glen Shires from Google posted a picture of the double
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Don’t miss your exit—#GoogleMaps now has navigation lane guidance for Germany,…, Google+ - Google Maps
- 10 new languages in Google Translate means an additional 200 million people…, Google+ - Google
- Follow the Google Top Contributor Program Get updates and videos from meetups,…, Google+ - Moritz Tolxdorff
- to prevent pages from being indexed, is there a ranking penalty for blocking vs using noindex?, Google Webmaster Help
- We, the Chrome Security Team, propose that user agents (UAs) gradually change…, Google+ - John Mueller