Search Engine Roundtable

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 PST

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....

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 20, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:55:00 PST

In this week's search video recap, I try a new format, breaking the news up in segments - do let me know if you like it. I am sorry the video is so long, just lots of information to cover....

Google Jazz User Interface Out In The Wild

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:06:20 PST

Yesterday, Danny covered a new user interface Google is testing on about 2% of their users right now. The interface is known internally (actually, it is not named this internally, but the name is catchy, so maybe we should use...

Microsoft Bing November 2009 Search Update?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:08 PST

There is some early discussion over at WebmasterWorld that Microsoft Bing has updated their search index. Many webmasters are discussing changes in rankings in this and other forums (which are hard to link to). Here is what WebmasterWorld moderator, martinibuster...

GoogleBot Can Also Crawl Too Much & Be Nasty

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:52:42 PST

The other day, I noticed a thread at Google Webmaster Help where a person was complaining that they were being hit hard by GoogleBot. In short, Google's spider was crawling his site in a very aggressive manner. He said: After...

Google Now Enforcing 35 Character Display URL Policy

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:43:58 PST

First spotted by Kim at AdWords Help Experts Blog, a Google AdWords Help thread has reports that Google is now enforcing the 35 character display URL limit set on AdWords ads. One advertiser asked for an exception, which Google did...

Yahoo Adds Tweets In New Developing News Box

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:37:56 PST

Yahoo announced they have added a developing news box that includes news articles, pictures, videos and also tweets. Starting today, you can see relevant photos, videos, and tweets about a breaking news story on the Yahoo! News Shortcut. Many of...

Google Updates iPhone & Android Gmail & Calendar Interface

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:25:17 PST

Gone mostly unnoticed, Google has updated their Gmail and Google Calendar interface on iPhone and Android mobile devices. Google did announce a new mobile news look for these devices, but no word on the Gmail interface. I spotted this update...

Daily Search Forum Recap: November 19, 2009

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:00:00 PST

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....

Google Disabling AdSense Accounts For Using Tamper Data Firefox Plugin

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:10:13 PST

I have been seeing reports of Google banning and disabling AdSense accounts due to using a Firefox plugin named Tamper Data. Tamper Data allows people to view and modify HTTP/HTTPS headers and post parameters, which can be helpful, but also...

Google Maps Satellite Images Being Posterized?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:02:01 PST

A Google Maps Help thread reports that at least one satellite image in South Africa has a weird posterization effect to it. You can see it yourself at 33°55'7.79"S, 25°35'2.40"E, or Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Here is a picture: This...

Bing UK Out of Beta, But Too Soon?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:49:31 PST

About a week ago, Bing announced they have taken Bing UK (www.bing.co.uk) out of beta. They basically said, you can now get more relevant UK results when in the UK and searching in the UK. Here is a snippet from...

Google Reader URLs a Target for Email Spammers

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:41:57 PST

For years, email spammers have been looking for ways to encourage people to click on their links. And for years, Google has been a target. Why? Well, when someone sees a link that has google.com in it, people trust it....

Danny Sullivan Looks Back at Starting Search Marketing Conferences

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:34:39 PST

Yesterday, Danny Sullivan wrote an article named 10 Years Ago: The First Search Marketing Conference, A Retrospective. The article is a must read for everyone who is a daily reader of this site. In short, Danny talks about how the...

Google Removed Negative Search Result Michelle Obama, Should They Have?

barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:22:47 PST

A week or so ago, we reported that a search in Google images for Michelle Obama returned a racist image. The image was offensive, racist and has been removed from the search results - which is what I was hoping...