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:
- Search Buzz Video Recap: Google Holocaust Denial, Featured Snippets, Bing Webmaster Tools & Search Console Updates
This week in search I covered the controversy around Google's Holocaust denial results and did they actually update their algorithm to prevent those results... - Google Reiterates There Is No Penalty For Not Linking Out
In May 2016, Gary Illyes from Google said he is angry with sites that don't link out - he called it stupid. But John Mueller later explained that there is no penalty... - Google: Similar New URLs Won't Pick Up Old URLs Signals
I honestly never heard of this but Google's John Mueller told someone that they do not need to worry that Google will consider new URLs that are close to the same URL name as an old URL to transfer signals from the old URL to the new URL... - Google 'Tis The Season! Holiday Doodles For Cold & Warm Locations
Google has started their series of holiday logos for the 2016 holiday season. Christmas and Chanukah start the same day, December 25th - which is rare and Kwanzaa starts the day after... - Google Gnomes
Here is a photo from Ankit Mohanty posted on Instagram of the Gnomes at the Google office. For some reason these gnomes or maybe gnomes in general freak me out, even more so next to a Google logo.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Create and edit playlists on YouTube Music, YouTube Help
- Google might be facing 1 $3.8 billion lawsuit over internal spying, WebmasterWorld
- Google to launch new smart watches in 2017, WebmasterWorld
- Friends and family flying in this holiday? Give them the gift of punctuality...., Google+ - Google Maps
