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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Daily Search Forum Recap: August 19, 2009
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Google's Caffeine Update Running Off Google's New File System (GFS)
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 4:26pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Search Engine
Shortly after Google announced the Caffeine preview update The Register published an article named Google File System II. The two are actually mostly unrelated, in that the caffeine update runs off the second Google File System, like Microsoft Word runs off Windows.
But Matt Cutts confirmed in a recent interview with The Register that Google's Caffeine infrastructure, does indeed run off the second Google File System. The article said, "Matt Cutts confirms that the company's new Caffeine search infrastructure is built atop a complete overhaul of the company's custom-built Google File System."
"There are a lot of technologies that are under the hood within Caffeine, and one of the things that Caffeine relies on is next-generation storage," he says. "Caffeine certainly does make use of the so-called GFS2."
How does this impact SEOs? Well, honestly, it doesn't. Caffeine will have an impact, but it running on GFSII really doesn't matter technically to SEOs.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Google Again Able To Charge Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Cards
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 4:18pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google AdWords
A few weeks ago, we reported about the issue Indian advertisers were having with Google being able to charge their Reserve Bank of India RBI credit cards. Google was forced to require these advertisers to fax over their credit card authorizations, which slowed the process down to getting campaigns live.
On August 17th, an AdWords representative updated the Google AdWords Help thread saying they are now able to take these cards electronically. Bindu from Google said:
We are now able to charge all such accounts without further declines from the Citibank end. Any credit card that has been declined post August 13, 2009 is a normal decline (the steps outlined over here should assist you with troubleshooting this issue.)
If your credit card is still declined, you may want to re-enter your billing information (outlined over here)
If you have not sent the standing instructions form yet please do so as soon as it is possible.
For all other queries, you will have to contact support.
This was a huge thread with dozens, if not, hundreds of complaints. I hope this is resolved for the most part.
Forum discussion at Google AdWords Help.
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More Google Advertisers Being Forced into New Interface, Including Me
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 4:10pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google AdWords
Two months ago or so, we reported that some advertisers were being forced into the new AdWords interface. Well, yesterday, I and many other advertisers received the email that we were being forced into the new AdWords interface.
A WebmasterWorld thread has both old and new reports of advertisers being forced into the interface. One advertiser expressed his dissatisfaction with this move, saying:
Ug I was just forced into the new interface. I hate being forced. I do not have time to relearn the whole stupid thing. Please please awa give it back to us. This is so unfair to force something so unpopular.
An other complaint read:
I just got forced into the new-interface-only bin, not best pleased! Why can't old UI be linked since reports, adwords tools, account management and client centre still on old UI?
We ran a poll a while back, where we saw that 56% disliked the new interface. Now, I wonder if more people dislike it or more people are becoming more vocal about it, since being forced into the new interface?
Note, tomorrow is the last day to take part in the new interface webinar offered by Google. A Google AdWords Help thread has a post from AdWordsPro that contains the details, which I will repeat here:
I know I have pinned any number of threads to the top of the page letting you all know about the live and free 'New AdWords Interface Webinars' that have been available for quite some time now.
Today, however, I am posting about what is planned to be the final webinar. So, if you have thought about participating in a live session of the webinar, please make it this one, as it is almost certainly the last chance.
This final webinar is occuring on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 9:30 AM PDT
As has been mentioned previously in the other threads on the subject, you may register for this free webinar, and/or watch an archived webinar, and/or access a number of userful 'new UI' resources on this page:
New AdWords Interface Webinars
[https:]Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld & Google AdWords Help.