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:
- The 100th Anniversary Of The Crossword Puzzle Gets A Google Doodle
Tomorrow is the 100th anniversary of the first ever crossword published anywhere. It was published by Arthur Wynne, a journalist from Liverpool, England on December 21, 1913 in the New York World... - Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: December 20, 2013
It was an all Google week, like many, with Google breaking the bad guys and loving the good guys. Google penalized another link network, this one named Backlinks.com. Anglo Rank, the network Google penalized the week before... - Google December 19th Ranking Fluctuations Reported
So Google confirmed they reduced the authorship snippets from showing in the results. We know that. Matt Cutts strongly implied that there was no update on December 17th... - Google Continues Work On Promoting Topic Authorities
Back in May, we covered how Google is planning on releasing an algorithm to promote subject authorities in the search results. Some call this the "good guy algorithm" and some call it the "author authority algorithm," while others may have some other names for it... - New Look For Medical Knowledge In Google's Search Results
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around a new look for answers around medical or health related queries in Google. The results, as described by a webmaster, "replaces results with content... - iOS 6 Jailbreak & Google Search App Don't Work Together
There are new complaints, since the Google search app was updated... - Google: Authorship Works With Google+ Vanity URLs
Once you get your authorship working, no one wants to mess around and change URLs. Some don't like to mess around even if the authorship is not live in the search results... - Panda & Penguin KeyCaps For Google Webspam Holiday Gifts
Google's Matt Cutts shared on Twitter a picture of the holiday presents Googlers who are part of the webspam team are giving each other. One such gift is a panda and penguin keycap. He wrote
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- For the eighth time, we’re disclosing the number of…, Google - Google+
- MyGlass app for iOS is now available One more #glassupdate…, Google Glass - Google+
- Doing some last-minute holiday shopping? The Google Search…, Google Maps - Google+
