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  Daily Search Forum Recap: December 14, 2009

  Posted: December 14th, 2009, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick

  Tags:  Search Forum Recap  

  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's "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button Counts Down To New Year

  Posted: December 14th, 2009, 3:00pm CET by rustybrick

  Tags:  Google Search Engine  

  If you go to Google.com and click on the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, Google will show you a countdown to the new year. You cannot type anything into the search box for this to work, just click on the button with an empty search box.

  Here is a video of it working just minutes ago, on my screen:

  Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help and DigitalPoint Forums.

  
  

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  Bug When Updating Google Maps Local Listing

  Posted: December 14th, 2009, 2:48pm CET by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Google Topics  

  Starting over the weekend, if you tried to update a Google Maps business listing in the Google Local Business Center, you would get a weird error. We have many reports in the Google Maps forums, many.

  The error sometimes looks like this:

  System Error

  We're sorry, but we are unable to serve your request at this time. Please try back in a few minutes.

  Try again document.write("|nx3ca hrefx3dx22/local/add/businessCenter?hlx3den-USx26amp;glx3dUSx22 onclickx3dx22history.go(-1); return false;x22x3e

  Return to previous pagex3c/ax3e"); | Return to previous page

  Google Maps Guide Linda replied to many of the threads with the same message, it read:

  Hi,

  We're aware of this system error issue and we hope to have this fixed by next week. Please check your account again next week to verify your business listing.

  Thanks for your patience.

  Best,
  Maps Guide Linda

  The Google Maps threads include these four help threads, but I believe there are many more.

  Forum discussion at Google Maps Help Discussions.

  
  

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  You Can Now Block Your YouTube Subscribers

  Posted: December 14th, 2009, 2:40pm CET by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Google Topics  

  Liz from YouTube Support announced in a YouTube Help thread that a long requested feature is now available - the ability to block subscribers from your channel.

  Why would you want to block specific subscribers? Maybe you got 'pervs' watching your videos? Maybe you don't like certain commentators on your videos? Maybe you are anti-social?

  How do you do it?

  1. Sign into your YouTube account
  2. Go to http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=[YOURUSERNAME]&view=subscribers
  3. On this page you'll be able to see the users who are subscribed to your channel and the thumbnail icon from their channel. Below the thumbnail image you'll see a "Block" button.
  4. If you click the "Block" button you'll remove the user's subscription to you, and you'll also block them if their account is active on YouTube.

  After that, Liz explains:

  You'll receive a confirmation asking you whether or not you want to remove the user from your subscribers list first before you actually remove the user. This is just in case you accidentally click the "Block" button. We all know accidents happen.

  Here is a picture of the block button:

  I won't block you, so feel free to subscribe to the RustyBrick YouTube Channel which is what I use to do my weekly search videos, amongst other videos. I still need to make that page look better, one day - one day.

  Forum discussion at YouTube Help.