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:
- December 2017 Google Webmaster Report
This month, the big items are around two possible Google updates that went unconfirmed. Google did confirm they extended the snippets all the way to a max of 320 characters. Google also warned about two penalties... - Google Tests Related To Knowledge Answers
Google is testing a new knowledge answer, above the knowledge cards, that show you who is related to who when you search for a famous person's name in search... - Google Will Render AJAX & Stop Using Old AJAX Crawling Scheme
A couple months ago, Google hinted they would stop crawling and indexing content from the old AJAX crawling scheme, which was technically deprecated two years ago. Well... - New Google Best Answer Carousel In Search Results Snippets
Several folks on Twitter are notifying me of a new Google search feature where Google is showing a box for "best answer" with other answers following directly below search results snippets... - Now Live: The Google 2017 Holiday Decorations For Hanukkah, Christmas & Kwanzaa
Today, Google has launched their annual holiday decorations on their search results page. Like always, you can trigger them by searching for the holiday name and sometimes variations of the holiday name... - Rand Fishkin - 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. Rand Fishkin, 38 years old, lives with his wife in Seattle, Washington and is most well known for co-founding his company, Moz... - Google Hosts Christmas Party For Seniors
Here is a photo from the Google Dublin office of a Christmas party held at that office for seniors. Sinead Orla Curley, a Materials manager at Google, posted this on Instagram. I am not sure if these
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Announcing Reels: a new lightweight video format, currently in beta!, YouTube Help
- Apple Agrees €13 billion ($15.46) billion back taxes for Ireland, WebmasterWorld
- December 2017 AdSense Earnings & Observations, WebmasterWorld
- Facebook to Open New London Office, WebmasterWorld
- Facebook wants to bring kids into its system with "Messenger Kids", WebmasterWorld
- Google’s Review Spam Algo, What Algo? - Online Ownership, Local Search Forum
- Anyone changed back to http, after https traffic drop?, WebmasterWorld
