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 :: December 19, 2014
This week in search, I cover how we have not seen much Panda movement since mid-October. Googleâs Freebase announced they are closing up shop…
Karolina Kruszyńska Hangs Up Her Google Spam Fighting Gloves
Karolina KruszyÅ”ska, a Google spam fighter who focused on Polish spam and was the face between Polish webmasters and Google, is leaving the Google webspam team and going into a completely different space…
Google Wants Non Secure (HTTP) Sites To Have Warning
Google Chrome is submitting a proposal to change the behavior around how browsers mark HTTPS sites as secure but HTTP sites as nothing.
They want HTTP sites to specifically carry a warning label that it is not secure. Kind of how when you go to an HTTPS site that is not secure…
Google News To Offer Their Own Newsletter To Publishers
Google News will be publishing a newsletter for publishers every now and then. The first one should be coming soon.
Stacy Chan from the Google News team posted in the Google News Help forum about it…
Bing Predictions: Bing Predicting 2015
Bing is very into their predictions, it has been pretty solid at predicting a lot of outcomes on a lot of events in 2014. So for the end of 2014…
Google Images Germany Switches To Framed Previews
Google Image search back inJanuary 2013, changed their design to show a preview of the image, directly in the Google Image search results, behind a black bar.
Google Germany seems to have dropped that feature. Via Martin Ice Web in the WebmasterWorld forums…
Google’s Latke Cookoff Hanukkah Event
Last night at the Google New York office, some Jewglers (Jewish Googlers) or maybe even non Jewglers, participated in the Latke cookoff. A latke is a potato pancake, and it is customary to eat them o
Other Great Search Forum Threads:
how can I ask google to remove an image I own but had to remove from my website for legal reasons?, Google Webmaster Help
Get ready to bask in pure patriotism: tour the set of The Colbert Report with…, Google+ – Google Maps
Google showing Stock Market information is Google Alerts Email, Google+ – Kevin Anchi
What To Do With Dead Backlinks?, HighRankings Forums
