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: February 17, 2010
Posted: February 17th, 2010, 10:00pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Poll: 60% of Google AdSense Publishers Say Earnings Down
Posted: February 17th, 2010, 2:38pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google AdSense
A bit over a week ago, we reported that AdSense publishers were complaining about lower earnings. So to get a better and wider count of those who agree that earnings are indeed down, I ran a quick poll.
We had just over 85 responses to the poll and I wanted to share the results.
I asked, Have Your AdSense Earnings Dropped in February, from January?
51 people or 59.3% said Yes, 31 people or 36% said No and 4 people had other things to say. Here is the chart:
So what do you make of this?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Bing Indexing New Content & Sites Faster?
Posted: February 17th, 2010, 2:27pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Microsoft MSN Search
A WebmasterWorld thread has some positive news for the Microsoft Bing team! The thread is praising Bing for speeding up their indexing and ranking of new pages, updated content and new web sites.
This comes several weeks after Bing declared they were slow at indexing new sites. So I am happy that webmasters, at least some, are happy with the speed of Bing's crawler and indexer.
Mack, the forum moderator summed it up, saying:
Bing is getting quick! Even when it comes to new sites/domains.
Two additional webmasters agreed. To be fair, I have seen a slow down of complaints in the Bing forums about complaints of their sites not being indexed. But that can be for many reasons.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld .
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Google Book Search Dropped Search My Library
Posted: February 17th, 2010, 2:23pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Search Engine
A Google Book Search user is upset that Google has dropped the search within your Google Book Search library feature. He expressed his complaints in a WebmasterWorld thread. He said:
Then a couple of weeks ago, I logged in and I can no longer restrict my search results to items in My Library.
For me, this is the primary way I use Google Books. First search my library. If I don't find it, search more broadly. If I find something good in general search, add that book to my library. If you will, it's like manually controlled personalized search.
It's true, I do not see a way to search only my library, even within the advanced search feature.
This must have changed when Google updated the My Library feature in late January.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Google Calculates Kelvin to Celsius Wrong: Thanks WolframAlpha
Posted: February 17th, 2010, 2:15pm CET by rustybrick
Tags: Google Search Engine
If you want to find out the conversion of kelvin to celsius, do not use Google. A Google search for [kelvin to celsius] returns the wrong calculation. Google returns 1 kelvin = -272.15 degrees Celsius.
This issue was brought up in a Google Web Search Help thread. Since I do not know the first thing about these types of conversions, I decided to see what Wolfram Alpha had to say about the calculation. The same search on Wolfram returns the correct calculation:
272.15 is wrong, but 273.15 is correct.
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.