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:
- Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 19, 2014
This week in search, I cover how we have not seen much Panda movement since mid-October. Googleâs Freebase announced they are closing up shop... - Karolina Kruszyńska Hangs Up Her Google Spam Fighting Gloves
Karolina KruszyÅ"ska, a Google spam fighter who focused on Polish spam and was the face between Polish webmasters and Google, is leaving the Google webspam team and going into a completely different space... - Google Wants Non Secure (HTTP) Sites To Have Warning
Google Chrome is submitting a proposal to change the behavior around how browsers mark HTTPS sites as secure but HTTP sites as nothing. They want HTTP sites to specifically carry a warning label that it is not secure. Kind of how when you go to an HTTPS site that is not secure... - Google News To Offer Their Own Newsletter To Publishers
Google News will be publishing a newsletter for publishers every now and then. The first one should be coming soon. Stacy Chan from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forum about it... - Bing Predictions: Bing Predicting 2015
Bing is very into their predictions, it has been pretty solid at predicting a lot of outcomes on a lot of events in 2014. So for the end of 2014... - Google Images Germany Switches To Framed Previews
Google Image search back inJanuary 2013, changed their design to show a preview of the image, directly in the Google Image search results, behind a black bar. Google Germany seems to have dropped that feature. Via Martin Ice Web in the WebmasterWorld forums... - Google's Latke Cookoff Hanukkah Event
Last night at the Google New York office, some Jewglers (Jewish Googlers) or maybe even non Jewglers, participated in the Latke cookoff. A latke is a potato pancake, and it is customary to eat them o
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- how can I ask google to remove an image I own but had to remove from my website for legal reasons?, Google Webmaster Help
- Get ready to bask in pure patriotism: tour the set of The Colbert Report with…, Google+ - Google Maps
- Google showing Stock Market information is Google Alerts Email, Google+ - Kevin Anchi
- What To Do With Dead Backlinks?, HighRankings Forums
