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 AMP In Google News More Than Doubles, Hits 70% Of Results
The folks at RankRanger reports that Google News on mobile is now showing close AMP in the US results up to about 70% of the time. They said that between January 26th and January 29th is when they saw the spike... - Google News Removes Shareable Sections
Back in 2011, Google News launched badges and sharable sections - an idea I was not too fond of - but who am I... - Google Tips On How To Block User Generated Spam
Google posted a blog post on Friday named protect your site from user generated spam. It wasn't a warning, such as... - Google Image Search Bug Didn't Allow Enlarging Images
There was a massive bug with Google Image search for the past four days that prevented searchers from clicking on an image to see the enlarged version. The complaints started flowing in on Thursday, January 26th... - Google Tests More Carousel Features In Local Card
As you saw from last week, Google tested showing the local pack in a carousel interface. Now, Google is testing showing carousels within a single local card or result. Google has had the carousel here, on and off... - Google Doodle For Fred Korematsu, American Activist Against Internment Of Japanese Americans
Google has a special and timely Google Doodle on the Google home page in the United States region for Fred Korematsu. Fred Korematsu was an American activist who fought against the the internment of Japanese Americans... - Google's Sergey Brin At Airport Protests This Weekend
Here is a photo from Matt Kang of Forbes h/t @RMac18 showing Google's co-founder Sergey Brin partaking in the protests this Saturday night at San Francisco airport. He said "I'm here because I'm a re
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- In the wild: Google testing new Ads that look very similiar to their organic counterparts below @rustybrick https://t.co/L4xsCClRRA, Brian Jensen on Twitter
- @Rick_BarK nope, John Mueller on Twitter
- Google+ bringing back the ability to edit business descriptions again @mblumenthal @rustybrick #SEO #LocalSEO https://t.co/pAbqmgbktc, Dave DiGregorio on Twitter
