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: Personalized Search Results Is "Very Light"
Danny Sullivan of Google has just posted officially about this on Twitter saying "personalization of results is very light." Most people searching in the same... - Google News Drops Editors' Picks & Standout Meta Tag
The new version of Google News has launched last night and with that, Google has ended support for the Editors' Picks feeds and the standout meta tag in Google News... - Google Rich Snippets Not Impacted By Shorter Search Result Snippets
As you know, Google has cut down the snippet length in the search results significantly from when they increased them in December. But this should have zero impact on your rich snippets and rich cards... - Nick Leroy - The Search Community Honors You
This is part of the say something nice about an SEO/SEM series - feel free to nominate someone over here. Nick Leroy is 31 years old and lives with his wife and three kids (he has four year old twins) in St Paul, Minnesota... - Tamara de Lempicka, The Polish Painter Gets A Google Doodle
Today on the home page of Google.com is a special Doodle, a Gogole logo, for Tamara de Lempicka... - Google Conference Paper Ball Fight
At the Google Dublin office there was a conference where the attendees learned about randomisation, the best method removing selection bias between two groups of patients, via a paper ball fight. The
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Facebook App Review, WebmasterWorld
- Facebook Publishes Community Enforcement Information, WebmasterWorld
- Google Employees Quit Over Ethical Concerns Project Maven, WebmasterWorld
- New Voyager story shows what markets are available in 3D!, Google Maps Help
- Some social media & chat sites try to extract information from the page that you share, titles, descri.. um.., and images, etc. If they can't render the pages to get that information, they're gonna have a bad time, John Mueller on Twitter
- Google now sending out a Search Console email recommending manual updates for a specific WordPress version that has an auto-update bug. cc @rustybrick… https://t.co/UPkvBGr8dY, Barry Adams on Twitter
- New YouTube tools to help with your digital wellbeing, YouTube Help
