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:
- Beware Of Browser Hijacks & Fake Google Ads
Every now and then I see people post screen shots of Google search ads that look suspicious because (a) they are irrelevant to the query and (b) kind of hidden and hard... - Google "Similar To" Carousel For Local Search Results
Sergey Alakov spotted another Google local feature that might be undergoing testing now, he posted it on Twitter. It is similar to the local hotel refinements carousel we covered the other day... - Google Shows More Yellow Map Pins In Snippets
In early April we reported some folks seeing yellow map pins in the Google search results snippets. Now, many more are seeing it... - Google Search Settings Page Broken
If you go to your Google search settings and try to change some of those settings, such as the number of results per page, your geographic region and some other settings, it won't work. Google is aware of the issue and is working on a fix... - David Iwanow - 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. David Iwanow is currently 36 years old and lives and works in London... - Google Badge For Dog
Here is a photo of one of the dogs that is at Google, it has its very own Google badge. This was posted on Instagram and the person wrote that this dog comes so often to the Google office that it got
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- @____lighthouse team is hiring engineers to help build and scale the (just announced) Lighthouse API! Interested in helping make the web fast? Ping [email protected].. pronto!, Ilya Grigorik on Twitter
- Looking to hire a software engineer for Google's Sunnyvale DCSW team to build the UI / front end for the tool that will organize all of Google's power infrastructure (GIGAWATTS worth). Bonus points for an awesome Angular2, David E. Weekly on Twitter
- RanRan is here to help too!, The Google Advertiser Community
- There’s New Car Smell. There’s New Car Feel. And now, there’s ✨ New Car Icon..., Google+ - Google Maps
- Those two seem unrelated to me. If you want to try a screen reader, I'd check out ChromeVox or similar tools.…, John Mueller on Twitter
- Two things a friendly crawler can't avoid, death by infinite spaces and robots.txt....…, John Mueller on Twitter
