Daily Search Forum Recap: October 1, 2014

Oct 1, 2014 - 4:00 pm 1 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's Online Order Shipment Comes With Search Algorithm Help Request
    Thomas Steiner, a PhD Customer Solutions Engineer for Google in Hamburg, Germany placed an order online at Lieferello for some cold beverages and in his order shipment box he found this colorful letter. In a sense, they bribed Thomas with an extra free bottle...
  • Google Smartphone Icons Now Testing Again
    Back in August 2012 we saw Google testing smartphone icons in the search results and then they went away. Google seems to be testing that again. Artem Russakovskii from Android Police spotted it in the wild, as have others...
  • Google Wants Ideas For Live Webmaster Hangouts Topics
    Google is now frequently conducting live webmaster hangouts with normally one Googler and then nine other webmasters on the Google Webmaster Google+ page. Google's John Mueller does a ton of them and he said he is ready to schedule a bunch more but wants them to be topical...
  • Google AdWords PLAs Automatic Item Updates
    Google announced a new feature to help reduce the number of ad disprovals due to there being price mismatches between your PLAs feed and what is displayed on your web page. This is called "automatic item updates" and can be enabled if you have implemented schema...
  • Google's Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg Visit A Synagogue
    In Google's Eric Schmidt & Jonathan Rosenberg book promotions efforts, they had a speaking engagement with Lisa from the NPR at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, DC. Both Schmidt and Rosenberg

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