Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'google uk'

Google UK Filled with Aussi Sites?

Tamar covered the Google UK July report yesterday but I noticed a new observation from Gabs at Search Engine Roundtable Forums. Gabs pointed out that Google's UK search algorithm seems to be returning an unusual number of sites related to...

Major Google UK Search Changes? 'Dewey' Crosses The Pond

I'll be honest, I keep watching the WebmasterWorld thread discussing the April 2008 Google update, code named Update Dewey. The latest thing that I noticed were recent reports from very senior members saying that Google is shuffling around the results,...

Upper Case & Lower Case Searches May Return Different Google Search Results

An interesting thread has been brewing over at WebmasterWorld with reports of an unusual Google query test. It seems like searchers in the UK, searching on UK based IPs at Google may see different results when they search first in...

Google Country Specific Results No Longer Showing Supplemental Pages?

Reports are coming from WebmasterWorld that when you conduct a country specific search, you are no longer able to see which pages are supplemental. The example given was a search at google.co.uk. When you conduct a site: specific search for...

Google Site Command Specific to UK Results Broken?

There have been lingering reports at both Search Engine Roundtable Forums and WebmasterWorld that Google's site command feature for the UK search engine is broken. For example, if you conduct a site:www.bbc.co.uk and restrict it to "pages from the UK",...

Google No Longer To Accept Gambling For Fun Ads in AdWords

Google has been notifying UK AdWords advertisers that they will no longer be accepting any form of gambling ads. That means, even sites that "gambling related content or gambling tutorials," said the email sent to advertisers by Google. Google clarified...

Google Adds "Maps" Navigation Link To Google UK

I began tracking image searches to spot new changes reported by those in the image world. The first thing I spotted was that Google appears to have added the "Maps" navigation link to the Google.co.uk pages. The photo I spotted...

Google Not Showing Localized Pages Within Country For .COM TLDs

There appears to be this bug lingering around since August 2006 that I did not fully look into today. A site that is hosted outside of the US, let's say, in the UK or Australia, with .com TLDs, are indexed...

Google UK Unique Indexing Issues?

A WebmasterWorld thread discusses, what they suggest to be, issues unique to UK based sites, within the UK only Google search results. One such example; A site:domainname search lists the pages in the site ok when performed in the default...


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