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Google Bug Removes Web Designers in Local Pack
Now, if you do a search for web design, web development, or most digital agency like queries, with or without a local qualifier (i.e. web design new york), Google won't show the local 7 pack. Mike Blumenthal covered this well,...
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Buy a Banned Domain? Should You Ask Google for Forgiveness?
A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who allegedly purchased a domain name that was banned by Google. He basically asked, how does he get this domain to be clean and start over. In the past, I would have said, just...
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SEO Gets a Google Birthday Cake
An SEO from DigitalPoint Forums is celebrating a birth day. What is so special about his birthday? Well, his sister baked him a cake, but not just any kind of cake, a Google cake. He explained: Hey, it's my birthday...
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News Corp May De-List Themselves From Google & Partner With Microsoft Bing
Let me summarize some of the news around News Corp, Google and Microsoft Bing over the past couple weeks. Rupert Murdoch of News Corp is upset that Google indexes his news sites content without paying a fee for doing so....
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Bing on Link Building
The Bing Search blog wrote a blog post on link building for "smart webmasters." A WebmasterWorld thread is currently dissecting that blog post, piece by piece. Martinibuster, Roger Montti, took the time to pull out the key points of the...
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Google Maps Navigation Available for Android 1.6
The Google Mobile blog announced that Google Maps Navigation, which was originally only available on Android 2.0, is now also available on 1.6 of the Android mobile OS. Google Navigation is a free navigation system that works on mobile devices...
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Google AdSense Bug Displaying Weird Characters in Ads
There are many reports at the Google AdSense Help forum with publishers complaining that Google is displaying weird characters on their ads. Here is a picture of one: Notice the ad at the top right showing weird characters. Google has...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 23, 2009
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....
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Google Buys Search Ad For Offensive Michelle Obama Image Result
If you search on for [Michelle Obama] in Google Image Search you will see a racist and offensive image of the first lady. We first reported this image back in ten days ago and then gave Google a hard time...
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Google AdWords Team Points Out Flaw in Google Keyword Tool
A Google AdWords API Help thread estimated position or average CPC being returned by the AdWords API differs from that of the Google Keyword Tool. Eric Koleda from the Google AdWords API Team replied basically pointing fault at the tool....
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Google Maps Pornography : Google Can't Keep Up
Earlier this month we reported on nudity & seductive Google Maps listings for London Escort services, amongst others. When we investigated the issue, it turned out to be a worldwide issue with nude and seductive images being displayed both in...
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Google is Obsessed with New Zealand, Forgetting Ireland & Egypt Again
A month and a half ago, Google for some reason had a bug that ranked the Google New Zealand property for a search on Google Ireland. Google fixed the issue a day or so later but now it appears to...
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Google Testing Related Searches Tab on Top Navigation Bar?
A DigitalPoint Forums thread links to a blog post from imanjalali.com which shows a new user interface for Google. The new user interface looks like Google is placing related search queries in tabs across the top of the search results....
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Google AdSense Being Blocked By Kaspersky Security Software
Google AdSense adds are currently being blocked by Kaspersky anti virus and Internet security software. This started sometime yesterday with their latest releases of their security program. One AdSense publisher emailed Kaspersky to let them know and he received a...
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Blue Google Map Pins in Google AdWords Results
A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports seeing a new type of Google AdWords result. This AdWords result seems to be combined with a Google Maps result, where it shows a blue pin, and address information on the right hand side of...
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More Reports of Bing Correctly Handling 301 Redirects
A month ago, we reported on early reports that Microsoft Bing Finally Figuring Out 301 Redirects? Yes, we ended in a question-mark because we were not too confident back then. Since the November '09 Bing Search update, more people are...
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Daily Search Forum Recap: November 20, 2009
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....
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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: November 20, 2009
In this week's search video recap, I try a new format, breaking the news up in segments - do let me know if you like it. I am sorry the video is so long, just lots of information to cover....
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Google Jazz User Interface Out In The Wild
Yesterday, Danny covered a new user interface Google is testing on about 2% of their users right now. The interface is known internally as the Jazz UI and is much more colorful, has streamlined search options and kind of looks...
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Microsoft Bing November 2009 Search Update?
There is some early discussion over at WebmasterWorld that Microsoft Bing has updated their search index. Many webmasters are discussing changes in rankings in this and other forums (which are hard to link to). Here is what WebmasterWorld moderator, martinibuster...
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