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:
- Holiday Break For Google Panda Updates?
It has been almost a month since the last official Google Panda update, which we named 3.1 and took place on November 18th. Since then, we had some rumors of updates and fluxes but nothing confirmed from Google. When I was at Google the other week... - Google Bug Leads To AdWords Gambling & Pharmaceutical Red Flags
Several Google AdWords advertisers posted complaints in the Google AdWords Help forum that their ads are being labelled as either gambling related or pharmaceutical, resulting in either special certificates required... - Babysitters: Don't Search For Young Babysitter On Google
A complaint arose from the Google Web Search Help forum that the results for babysitters learning about babysitting in Google is outright dangerous. The complaint comes from a person from the Babysitting Magazine... - Google Places Bug Prevents New Images
There are several threads and complaints from business owners that they cannot update their photos on their Google Places page. The central thread is at the Google Places Help forum where Google has confirmed the issue... - Google May Ramp Up Suicide Message For Holidays
For clinically depressed individuals, the holiday season can be a very hard time. A HackerNews thread talks about that but someone mentions that Google should ramp up their suicide messages for more and more countries. Currently, if you search for suicide like keywords in Google... - Google Holiday Present: Chromebook Cart
Seems like Google is giving away free Chromebook carts to Google Apps users who bought Chromebooks. Maybe this is part of Google's holiday gift for 2011? Krysss Nash posted the picture and the story
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
- Christmas SEO. What to change and why, WebmasterWorld
- Google WT API can't change wt:craw-rate, Google Webmaster Help
- A Site Url Problem For An Awkward Client., HighRankings Forums
- Doodle Flaubert, Google Blogoscoped Forum
