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: September 29, 2009
Posted: September 29th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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New Google Support Forums Turns One & Adds Profile Answers
Posted: September 29th, 2009, 4:51pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: SEO Forum News
It has been just over a year since Google opened the new Google help forums. The official date seemed to be the Google Talkabout forum in September 25, 2008, but most Google services didn't move over until later. The Google Webmaster Help forum didn't move until December 2008 and the Google Reader forum didn't move until last week.
The forum received many updates since the launch. The most significant was the redesign last August. Today, I was told by Googler, JohnMu that one of my pet peeves of the forum has been resolved.
Now, Google support forum profiles have not just questions asked, but also answered posts. So if you leave answers on other people's threads, they are included in the profile of the user. There is no RSS feed yet, but this is a major benefit to me and helping me bring you some of the best discussions in these forums. For example, see JohnMu's profile and you will see both questions he started, plus threads he replied to (but did not start).
Forum discussion continued in the original welcome thread at Google Webmaster Help.
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Google September 2009 Image Search Update Turns Out Bad?
Posted: September 29th, 2009, 4:43pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google Image Search has done an update to their index. One of the members that seems to always be on top of these images updates, zeus, has said that this update is worse off from the one in February.
He said:
Hmm it looks like they are now ruin the good update for 3-4 month ago, now to many images again gets filtered and a lot of images are lost with "moderate search off".
There are many complaints about the new filter in this update at WebmasterWorld. There are also a few sporadic threads at Google Webmaster Help on the topic.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Google Hot Trends Now in Google Search Results
Posted: September 29th, 2009, 4:36pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Optimization
In May 2007, Google released Google Hot Trends and I was a major fan. Google has now made this tool more visible to the public by inserting it into the Google search results, when applicable.
For example, a search for Bill Winters who recently made news by leaving quitting JP Morgan, you will see Google Hot Trends show up in the search results. Here is a picture:
The goal is for Google to show this hot trends box in the search results for any trending topics. Danny Sullivan has a nice write up on this named Take That, Twitter: Google Hot Trends Integrated Into Google Search.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.