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 Extends Search Results Snippets To Max 320 Characters
Google has officially extended the search results snippets to a maximum character length of 320 characters…
Official: Google Local Questions & Answers Now On Desktop
After months of testing the local question and answer feature on desktop…
Google Notable Moments In Knowledge Graph Cards
Google has a new feature they are testing in some knowledge cards called “notable moments.” In short, these notable moments give you a timeline of specific events that occurred in a carousel format…
14 Years Covering The Search Industry
Today is the 14th year anniversary of this site, the Search Engine Roundtable. This site, started as a way to keep my notes on the changes happening in the SEO/SEM space, has been consistently around and documenting those changes for 14 years straight…
Lisa Barone – 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.
Lisa Barone, 35 years old, lives in upstate New York with her husband and toddler, is a super awesome individual…
Google Scratch: Kids Coding Languages With Coding For Carrots
Today on the Google home page is a special interactive Google Doodle that helps kids learn how to code. It is to celebrate 50 years since kids programming languages during the Computer Science Education Week…
Google Christmas Toy Trains
Here is a photo I spotted on Instagram from the Google Dublin office of a toy train set all set up for Christmas ready to deliver presents. It was posted by Matilda Samuelsson who wrote Christmas spi
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
@jennyhalasz I wouldn’t focus too much on ranking factors & instead look at what search is trying to do: show relevant & great content to users when they… https://t.co/RE5mGOrIGB, John Mueller on Twitter
Threatening Tax Info Email from Adsense, WebmasterWorld
@Davidkaufmann16 @JohnMu Great ways to deal with case-insensitive URLs (with a preferred version, if you can’t redirect) are: * rel=canonical * consistent on-site li… https://t.co/9RtvywjyPe, Google Webmasters on Twitter
@RoeeSa @JohnMu @methode Language is per-URL (parameters are fine). Geotargeting for countries is per site section (domain, subdomain, subdirectory)., Google Webmasters on Twitter
I’ve been performing #SEO since 2000 (yes, I’m a novice) and I thought I’ve seen everything until today. This site’s keywords attribute has… https://t.co/FZvMOVfDlH, John McCarthy on Twitter
Report: Facebook to Test Pre-Roll Video Adverts, WebmasterWorld
