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 News "Slows" Publisher Inclusions For Holidays
Google News has been known to be generous in adding publishers to Google News index. But recently they have come under fire for being too spammy and has dropped some publishers with their new algorithm. Google News representative, Harvey P... - Google Takes The Life Out Of Google LIFE Image Archive
Over two years ago, Google made a deal with LIFE to provide a Google powered image search for the LIFE Photo Archive. You can still access it today at images.google.com/hosted/life. The issue is, when you click on any of those links or try a search query... - Take Our Survey & Win Google, Yahoo & Other Swag
Want to win some cool swag, like a Yahoo Search mini mouse or a Google t-shirt or other cool swag from Google, Yahoo and other search companies? Heck... - Should You Switch To Bing Box From Google Custom Search?
A WebmasterWorld thread has webmasters discussing the possibility of using Bing Box, Microsoft Bing's do-it-yourself search engine on their web sites. As you can see... - Google Won't Let You Delete Your YouTube Account
A YouTube Help thread have a confirmed bug report that you are currently unable to delete your YouTube account. The issue first started happening yesterday where users of YouTube who changed their minds and wanted to delete their YouTube accounts were unable to... - Blocking Google Video Bot Wont Stop Your Pages Showing In Google Video
A Google Webmaster Help thread has a report of a bug with Google's robots.txt handling. Specifically, if you block the useragent googlebot-video, the bot that discovers video content, in your robots.txt file... - Google Jane Austen Birthday Logo
Google New Zealand has a special logo for the 235th birthday of Jane Austen
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