Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2019

May 22, 2019 - 4:00 pm 0 by

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 Stopped Indexing The Web?
    There may be a serious Google bug or it might just be a interface issue - I am not sure - but if you try to find recent content indexed by Google - Google won't be able to help you out. If you try to search for content in the past hour or so from sites like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal or almost any site, you will be out of luck.
  • Brian White, A Lead Spam Fighter Leaves Google
    Brian White worked at Google for over 16 years, joining the company before I started this blog back in November 2002. He worked with Matt Cutts I believe almost his whole time while at Google and fought spam...
  • GoogleBot May Be Injecting Unwanted Meta Data Into Your Page
    Let me first start off with the title may sound more scary than it is, but I tried hard to come up with a short title for this post and I failed (traveling this week and I am tired). In short, with the new evergreen GoogleBot able to do more...
  • Bing Explains How To Submit URLs Via API
    Remember earlier this year Bing wanted to slow crawling the web and request webmasters to push them content via their URL submission tool. They expanded their rate limits and opened their API...
  • Google Tests Renaming Posts To Updates
    Mike Blumenthal spotted Google renaming the Google Posts section in the local knowledge panel from "Posts" to "Updates." Here is the screen shot...
  • Google Algorithm Updates & Data Refreshes Are Different Systems
    All of you know there are ranking algorithms, data refreshes and infrastructure changes - those are the big three. There are other things in search, such as feature changes, user interface changes...
  • Google Juice - Drinking The Google Water
    Here is a photo I found on Instagram of water bottles at Google's office with a "creative juice" written on them. The "juice" is also in the Google logo colors...

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