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:

Google Wants You To Ignore The Cache Date

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that we should really ignore the cache date.

I’d ignore the cache date…

Google: Boilerplate Content Is Not Harmful Or Toxic

Over the years I’ve seen webmasters and SEOs being concerned over boilerplate content…

Google Search Console Kills Fetch As Google For Mobile Apps

Google has removed a feature within Google Search Console for mobile apps, specifically the fetch as Google feature…

Google Gary Illyes: Why Do You Publish On Medium Over Your Own Site?

Medium is a pretty popular online publishing platform where you can write and publish on the Medium domain and property…

Google AdSense Redesigns Ad Review Center?

The folks over at the WebmasterWorld forums are saying that Google AdSense is starting to roll out a new ad review center. The ad review center first launched back in 2008 as a way to allow publishers to better control which ads they do not want to show on their site…

Inside The Google Chicago Subway Train Car
A few months ago we shared a photo of the subway or train car on the rooftop of the Google Chicago office. Well now I found a picture from the inside of the car. It was shared on Twitter by @Futurema

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

@VincentBrossas Not natively, but HTTP/1.x clients can connect to HTTP/2 servers, so might as well use HTTP/2 w/HTTPS 🙂, John Mueller on Twitter
@rollerblader @methode If users end up on HTTPS after a redirect, that’s fine (they’re on HTTPS, nothing to warn). HTST can help save the redirect too., John Mueller on Twitter
Google appeals €2.4Bil Antitrust Fine, WebmasterWorld
Google Updates Dashboard for User Privacy Controls, WebmasterWorld
IMO optimizing it past the normal usage is unlikely to yield measurable positive results., John Mueller on Twitter