Google made a nice number of changes to the search results, removing instant previews, adding a green arrow next to the URL, dropping related searches and removing the more by author link in the author snippet. Google also penalized Mozilla for user generated spam content, but it was only on one page and only because it had 12MB of spam. I then talked a bit more about user generated content spam and how it can impact you. Google sent out a webmaster tools message that said Googlebot can't access your site, don't worry about it. Google sends those messages to both www and non-www verified accounts. Google created an iOS app to manage your local listings on Google Maps. AdWords support now has screen sharing. Google's Penguin update is now one year old. BlueGlass, the SEO firm made of giants, seems to be toppling down. We had Earth Day logos and a special logo for the Queen of Jazz. That was this past week in search news at the Search Engine Roundtable.
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Search Topics of Discussion:
- Google Drops Instant Previews Over Low Usage
- Google: Searches Don't Use The Related Searches Option
- Google Authorship Snippet Drops More By... Link
- Google Has Manually Penalized Mozilla
- Google To Mozilla: You Had 12 Megabytes Of User Generated Spam On One Page
- Can User Generated Comments Cause A Google Penalty
- Ignore That Last Google Webmaster Tools Notification: Googlebot CAN Access Your Site
- Google Will Send Notifications To WWW & Non-WWW Webmaster Tools Accounts
- Google Creates iOS App To Manage Your Google Places Listing
- Google AdWords Support Adds Screen Sharing
- Happy Birthday Google's Penguin Update
- SEO Firm Made Of Giants, BlueGlass Is Collapsing
- Earth Day Logos From Google & Bing While Chinese Search Engines Show Earthquake Logos
- Google Logo For Ella Fitzgerald, The Queen of Jazz
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