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  Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 2010

  Posted: May 18th, 2010, 11:00pm CEST 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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  Programming Note: May 19th & 20th

  Posted: May 18th, 2010, 3:45pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Blog Administration  

  I wanted to give you a heads up that tomorrow, May 19th and May 20th, I won't be providing normal coverage here. I have five poll results scheduled to be posted each day, many with very interesting results that many of you have been waiting to see for a month or more now. So keep an eye out for those polls.

  We may have some guests posts or may not. I am personally going offline so I will not be providing normal forum coverage over the next two days. I will play catch up on Friday.

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  Bing Continues To Improve 301 Redirect Handling

  Posted: May 18th, 2010, 3:25pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Microsoft MSN Search  

  Back in the day, Bing just couldn't properly handle 301 redirects but that issue seems to be coming to a close. We saw improvements on Bing's 301 handling both in October 2009 and November 2009. It appears Bing has gone on record this month that they have indeed made strides in their 301 handling.

  301 redirects are known as permanent redirects. For example, I use a 301 redirect to redirect seoroundtable.com to seroundtable.com because many people mess up our name and link to the wrong place. 301 redirects are how this should be handled and tell the search engines that one URL has been permanently moved to a different URL.

  A Bing Help thread has a webmaster claiming his 3.5 month issue with Bing and how they handled his 301 redirects is finally resolved. Bing's Program Manager, Brett Yount confirmed they did actually do something to improve this. Brett said:

  While I can't provide the root cause, I can say that the team has been working on the fix for some time now and it appears to have helped other sites with similar issues as well.

  Brett then gets all emotional and says:

  I spend a great amount of time analyzing and then reporting trends to key teams within Bing. Sometimes it takes awhile to find a root cause out of the effects I present and sometimes it takes awhile to find the CORRECT fix--or even an interim fix to problems.

  However, as I have said in the past, I will say it again now:

  I don't care if your site has 5 pages or 5,000,000, I will do my best to find a solution for you. If it appears that you have fallen off my radar, ping me again. I don't mind. If your site is being affected by a chronic issue, rest assured that all of us at Bing are working to find a solution for not just you, but everyone else out there suffering from the same issue. And from all of us at Bing, thank you for your patience.

  Thanks Brett and the Bing team!

  Forum discussion at Bing Help.

  
  

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  Google AdWords Keyword Tool Adds Languages

  Posted: May 18th, 2010, 3:16pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Google AdWords  

  It seems Google is testing adding languages to the Google Keyword Tool. I am not sure if this is really new, but it seems folks at WebmasterWorld say it is.

  I personally see this new language break out, which is in the picture below:

  
  Pavlova said he believes this addition is a sign that Google "is developing a multilingual taxonomy, and that the category list that I've seen in English is a global categorization system."

  Tedster, WebmasterWorld administrator, said he does not see those languages when he tries to play with the keyword tool, but he wouldn't be surprised since Google is really pushing hard in language support.

  Is this new? If so, what type of impact do you think this will make going forward?

  Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

  
  

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  YouTube 5 Years Old & Adds Hash Tag Search

  Posted: May 18th, 2010, 3:02pm CEST by rustybrick

  Tags:  Other Google Topics  

  It is hard to imagine that YouTube is only five years old (as of Sunday) but it is. I wanted to share with you a neat new search feature that YouTube seems to be playing with, a form of tag search.

  I spotted this via Google Blogoscoped Forums, where you can search YouTube for specific hash tags. For example, a search for [#fail] currently returns these results for me:

  As you can see, it searches the comments on YouTube videos for the hashtag fail (i.e. #fail). Supposedly only a handful of hash tags actually are searchable now, including #FAIL, #OMG, #LOL, #FTW.

  Meanwhile, there is a bug on YouTube comments that prevents some comments from being deleted.

  Finally, I produce a weekly video that I publish on YouTube as well as other places like iTunes and on this blog. If you love search and YouTube, you can subscribe to my YouTube Channel over here.

  Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld, Google Blogoscoped & YouTube Help.