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: April 19, 2010
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Google Search Suggestions More Local & Auto Corrects More Search Queries
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 3:09pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Search Engine
Google announced three enhancements to Google, one for search suggestions and two for spelling.
The search suggestions now may show you metro specific suggestions, if you are in a certain U.S. metro area. The two examples give include:
(1) In San Francisco [bart] is probably not Bart Simpson; it’s probably Bay Area Rapid Transit
(2) In Chicago it’s easy to find out about your local NBA team (i.e. Chicago Bulls)Google also made spelling suggestions work with names. So now when you plug in an adjective followed by a name, Google will be smarter. The examples give include [matthew devin oracle], [yuri lehner stanford], [simon tung machine learning].
Finally, Google does auto-spelling corrects, they have since late 2008. Google said they are expanding this to 31 languages across over 180 domains. Meaning, Google is now going to be correcting even more searches. Not everyone likes the auto-corrections but this is how it is.
Tedster in a WebmasterWorldthread:
Well, it's a noble and understandable effort. I just hope the new spelling revisions stay in Google Suggest and don't migrate even further into the actual SERPs. There's enough query revision going on already.
Do you agree?
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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Guy Wants To Propose To Fiancé On Google Home Page
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 2:58pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Other Google Topics
When proposing to your fiancé, some people want to go big. What is bigger than placing an ad in the super bowl, being on the Google home page might be. That is exactly what one guy wants to do.
A Google Web Search Help thread has a guy named Stanislav Ponomarev from Natchitoches, LA, who is a student at Northwestern State University, who wants to propose to his girl friend via Google. He said:
um... Is there any way to put "%name%, will you marry me?" for a day on the front page of google web search? Maybe for a price?
Google really won't do that for anyone, trust me, I tried. Some of you may remember, the Ask Jeeves team helped me propose to my wife via a search engine. It was one of the first, if not the first, proposal via a search query. It made some pretty big news, but I didn't do it for that - I did it because I am all about search and it just seemed right.
Google doesn't change their search queries, so the only way to make that happen would be to:
(1) Use Google AdWords
(2) Use a browser that is hacked to show a special search result.Or I guess you can rank a web page for the search phrase you want to come up for. But I think more people should try to use search for stuff like this, it is neat!
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.
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Do SEOs Prefer Page Creation Via CMS Or By Hand?
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 2:51pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Engine Optimization
A HighRankings Forum thread has one member asking if SEOs prefer to code new pages by hand or to use an CMS (content management system). The difference is often very minor, but there is no doubt that you have more control over a specific page when you code it by hand. On the other hand, it is often harder to create some order and structure to a site coded all by hand.
Personally, I have always been about building a strong foundation through technology and then letting the foundation help you with your SEO. That means, building a very search engine friendly CMS and using that CMS to ensure you create new pages that are SEO friendly. That means a CMS that does not generate duplicate URLs, duplicate content, has search engine friendly URLs, the navigation is user and search spider friendly and so on. A good CMS, in my opinion, can offer huge advantages.
On the other hand, there is something to be said about having ultimate control of every line of the source code of each individual page. Of course, a CMS can give you enough control of every page, but not over 100% of the page in most cases.
Which do you prefer?
SEOs: Do You Prefer Page Creating By Hand or Via CMS?online surveys
Forum discussion at HighRankings Forum.
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YouTube Videos May Get "Operation Aborted" Error in Internet Explorer
Posted: April 19th, 2010, 2:44pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Other Google Topics
We know Google (& YouTube) is not a fan of Internet Explorer but now some Internet Explorer users are reporting that videos aren't playing in IE. Some users are getting an error message that says "Operation Aborted" and are then being redirected to a page on Microsoft.com with more details.
Liz from YouTube support started a thread at YouTube Help confirming the issue and saying they are working on a fix. Liz did say there may be a way for the videos to play. She said:
In the meantime, here's what I suggest as a quick work around so you're able to play videos without issues:
1. Try refreshing your browser a couple times. This should actually make videos play normally again without issues in Internet Explorer.
2. If the tip above didn't help, you could try temporarily switching to another browser (for example Firefox or Chrome) until the team has fixed the bug with Internet Explorer.
Thank you for your patience while the team's working on this issue. We hope to have everything back to normal soon!
So if you do get an error, try one of those tips above.
Forum discussion at YouTube Help.