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:
Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: March 28, 2014
This week, we saw a lot of people talking about ranking changes in Google…
Google’s Matt Cutts: Almost All Penalties Are For Quality Violations
The other day, Steve Plunkett asked Matt Cutts of Google, what percentage of penalties/filters are based on violations of Google’s Quality Guidelines versus technology issues or bugs on the webmaster side?
Customize Your Google Navigation Bar
Google is rolling out a way to customize the apps and products you want to see in your Google navigation bar.
Google announced this on Google+ saying that this is rolling out over the next few weeks to everyone. Here is an animated GIF of how it will work…
Google On IE8 Drops SSL & Passes Full Referrer
If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and go to Google, the default experience will not be over SSL and thus the referrer data will pass in full to the webmaster…
Google’s Navneet Panda Gets A Published Patent But Was It The Panda Patent?
A couple days ago, Bill Slawski posted his usual Google has a new patent granted, this one he titled Google’s Panda Granted a Patent on Ranking Search Results.
The patent was granted on the 25th and is named Ranking search results…
Inflatable Basketball At Google
Arguably, the most powerful company in the world, has a big inflatable basketball game at their headquarters, which they call the GooglePlex. Steve Grove, the Director of Community Partnerships, Goog
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
Report: Klout Acquired By Lithium Technologies For $200 Million, WebmasterWorld
Requests for user information from governments around the…, Google – Google+
Twitter Makes Photo Sharing More Social With Multiple Photos and Tagging, WebmasterWorld
Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Twitter Collaborate Over WebScaleSQL For Massive Databases, WebmasterWorld
Has Twitter now suspended Google CFO Patrick Pichette twice?, Twitter / AndyBeard