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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 + Pages & Direct Search
The big news yesterday was that Google announced the launch of Google + Pages. You can create a page now by going over here... - Who's Better: Google or Bing Webmaster Tools?
There is a nice discussion at Sphinn asking which webmaster tools product is better - Google or Bing... - Edmond Halley Google Logo's Mistake
Google UK has a special logo for the birthday of Edmond Halley but there is a small mistake most of you may not notice. Edmond Halley was born on November 8, 1656 and thus is celebrating his 355th birthday... - Google Places In Search Results Get Facelift
This is about a week or so old and we covered part of the new look back then... - November 2011 Google PageRank Update
It has been about three months since our last Google Toolbar PageRank update - and Google has pushed out a new one yesterday. There are several forums reporting the update, including WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint Forums and Cre8asite Forums... - Google Displays Advanced Rich Snippets On Search Results
Cyrus Shepard shared on Google + a new Google user interface test for displaying sources of data about a query on the right hand side of the search results... - Yellow Yahoo Security Vehicle
A picture posted on Flickr by Tiger Shanghai of the Yahoo Security vehicle. This very bright yellow pickup truck patrols Yahoo to make sure all is safe at their campus.
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- What's it worth to you?, WebmasterWorld
- Search Engine Watch Test of The Google Panda Update, WebmasterWorld
- 9 Common Ways To Bork Your Local Rankings In Google, Sphinn
- Introducing AdWordsPro Z, Google AdWords Help
- msnbot gone crazy?, WebmasterWorld
- Multi-page navigation not working properly in Custom Maps, Google Maps Help
- Strange (Firefox 3.6) Behavior on Menu Item, Google Webmaster Help
Comments:
NotBofA
11/10/2011 08:16 pm
Can you solve a mystery for me - why suddenly a couple of days ago did the look of my Google Advanced Search page change when I view using IE9? Looks the same in Firefox & Chrome, but strange in IE9 and it has a new box to narrow search to a range of years. Nice new feature, but I hate the look of the new page.
Gcraig0001
11/15/2011 07:19 pm
Noticed the same problem running IE 8; recently the advanced search page has a totally different format, with larger and wider spaced boxes that require scrolling to view all the options, and my preference for English results will not stick. If I go to the advanced search page for images, that page still has the old format and style. Is this some sort of ploy to get folks to abandon IE in favor of Chrome? If so, I think I'll abandon Google search instead. Any company that develops a site without making certain it works with the most widely installed browser needs to find some better qualified people, assuming this wasn't done on purpose. BTW, I noticed the same change of formatting on the YouTube login page also run by Google.