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:
RankBrain Used In All Google Searches & Impacts Search Results A Lot
Steven Levy, world famous author, wrote on Back Channel a bit about RankBrain, here is the quote:
It turned out the answer was yes, and the system is now part of search…
Hulu Google Traffic Drop & Return A Penalty Or Human Error?
I didn’t see much coverage of the Hulu Google organic search drop outside of a post by Bartosz Goralewicz over here but after a two or so week drop in Google organic placement and traffic, Hulu is back.
All the tools to track this concur including SEM Rush…
34% Of Google Search Results Are HTTPS
Gary Illyes from Google said last week at SMX Advanced that 34% of the Google search results are HTTPS.
We know Google began indexing HTTPS by default back in December of last year.
But still…
Google To Show Business Type/Category Overlays On Map
Google announced last week on the Asia Pacific blog that they are rolling out a feature in the Google Maps user interface to add on top of the business names, the business category or type of business it is…
Google AdWords Report Editor Now With Full Video Ad Reporting
Jon Diorio, a well liked Google AdWords Product Manager, posted on Google+ a little feature add to the Google AdWords Report Editor. Specifically…
Secretary of State Kerry With Sergey Brin In Google Self Driving Car
Here is a photo of United States Secretary of State John Kerry sitting in a self driving car with Google’s founder, Sergey Brin. This was posted on Google+ and they wrote “Thanks to +U.S. Department
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Google continues working on a new interface: https://t.co/roNvfErCgp https://t.co/saripdV1Qv, rgomezric on Twitter
Be careful with escaped fragment URLs & robots.txt disallows. A Disallow: /*? will block Google from requesting ?_escaped_fragment_= URLs., Dan Sharp on Twitter
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