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:
2012 Poll: Did Your Site Recover From The Google Panda Update?
It is just under a year since Google pushed out the Panda update on February 24th. Since then, we ran a poll back in June asking if anyone recovered. 85% said they did not recover from the Panda update.
Since it is now just about a year later, I wanted to rerun the poll…
Google New Drop Down Getting Old Again?
In November, Google began testing and rolling out their new drop down menu to Google users. Since then, it has been a very very slow roll out…
February 17: Latest Google Search Quality Updates
As I said yesterday in our Panda pipelines post, Google announced 17 search quality changes they made in the month of January.
Here is the full list that they announced:
Google: SEO Isn’t Good For Users Or The Internet
Jonathan Rockway, a Googler who is active on Hacker News slipped up on a comment he posted on Hacker News. Aaron Wall spotted it and wrote about it.
Let me quote the comment, then the “clarification” from Jon:
Instead of being able to SEO the entire Internet, businesses can now only affect the search results for a tiny percentage of users. That’s a good thing because SEO can’t scale, and SEO isn’t good for users or the Internet at large.
Google Logo For 200th Birthday Of Charles Dickens
Today, 200 years ago, Charles John Huffam Dickens was born in Landport, Portsmouth, England. To celebrate his life, Google has a special worldwide logo picturing some of his famous stories.
When you click on the logo, you are not taken to Google web search…
Google Gym Geek Fix It Sign
Joseph Smarr posted a picture of a sign posted in the Google gym, G-Fit, where a machine was broken and needed fixing. The sign read, “Aw Snap” with the typical Chrome broken system. Even the gym..,
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Google Docs App For Android Now Works Offline, WebmasterWorld
Important changes coming to subscriber counts, YouTube Help
[Logo] Super Bowl, Google Blogoscoped Forum
