Daily Search Forum Recap: August 21, 2013

Aug 21, 2013 - 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 Places Listings Auto-Upgraded To Google+ Pages
    Google has quietly announced in the Google Business Help forums that they have begun automatically upgrading some Google Places listings to the new Google+ pages with the added social features...
  • YouTube App With Search & Watch
    YouTube announced that you can now continue to watch the videos on your YouTube app while conducting searches on new videos. Google's YouTube said...
  • Google's Matt Cutts: +1s Don't Improve Rankings
    Moz published a story yesterday showing a high correlation between Google +1s and Google's search rankings. Shortly after, Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts...
  • Google Maps App With Waze Data
    Remember, Google acquired Waze, the awesome user generated mapping software company? Well, it didn't take long, it is now being integrated into Google Maps...
  • Related Ideas Search Coming To Google Keyword Planner
    There have been some criticism around the new Google Keyword Planner. One such critique is that the old keyword tool had...
  • The Google Analytics Hippo
    Not many of us get a chance to meet the Google Analytics Hippopotamus, Hippo for short. But Danny Sullivan the other week, while visiting Google UK, had the great opportunity to meet her. Here is a...

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