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:
Possible Google Algorithm Update January 15th
I am starting to see some early chatter within the webmaster and SEO community around a Google search algorithm update. It is pretty early but the ongoing WebmasterWorld thread has some chatter as of yesterday afternoon through today…
Google: You Can’t Judge Index Size By One Or Two Sites
Back in 2005 Google and Yahoo would compete over the size of their search engine index. That competition somewhat ended at the end of 2005…
Google AdSense To Publishers: AdSense Impressions From URLs Not Yet Crawled
We’ve been covering the significant drop in Google AdSense earnings from some publishers for over a month now…
Google: Spectre & Meltdown Patches Shouldn’t Impact Your Search Rankings
Spectre & Meltdown patches which were introduced over the processor bug that most major cloud services and other providers have issued patches for already are slowing down servers…
Google Tests Showing The Number Of Views On Reviews
Google is testing showing the number of views or impressions on reviews within Google Maps and local results. Thilo Corneille posted a screen shot of this on Twitter…
Annie Cushing – 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.
Annie Cushing lives in the Philadelphia region and has been one of the more well-known faces within the SEM community for ages…
Google Pig
I was scanning through the photos related to Google and other search personalities and I spotted Christopher The Pig stopping by Google to pay a visit. The pig even has its very own Google guest badge
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Javascript Frameworks Killing Browser & OS Performance?, WebmasterWorld
Twitter Denies Routinely Monitoring Direct Messages, WebmasterWorld
You can MODIFY the search on a Search-By-Image, including adding context info…, Google+ – Dan Russell
