Daily Search Forum Recap: December 16, 2011

Dec 16, 2011 - 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:

  • Googlebot Mobile For Smart Phones With Skip Redirect
    Google announced a brand new spider they are adding to the Googlebot line up - this bot is for smartphone related content and is named "Smartphone Googlebot-Mobile." This new crawler was introduced because of the huge spike in smartphone based content...
  • Funniest SEO Threads Of 2011
    The Google Webmaster Forum Top Contributors started a thread at Google Webmaster Help trying to compile the "funniest" threads of 2011 in that forum. They came up with three, so I thought it would be fun to look back at the funniest SEO threads I found this year and share them with you...
  • Google's Fastest Rising & Falling Searches For 2011
    Google announced their annual Google Zeitgeist and this year, they broke out the list into the fastest rising and falling by region and by search service, i.e. web search, news search...
  • Googlers Making Panda Bread
    I spotted this picture via Googler, John Mueller. He re-shared it on his Google+ page from CamMi Pham. She shared the ingredients and directions for making Panda bread. John said "So cute -- panda"

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