Daily Search Forum Recap: May 22, 2013

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...

Video: Google Conversational Search In Action
As Danny Sullivan reported earlier, Google's Conversational Search is now live on the Google desktop at Google.com. Basically, it lets you talk your query to Google and Google will respond back with a response...

Google Maps Reviews Tech Issues? Google's FAQ
Jade Wang from Google posted in the Google Business Help forum an FAQs on what to do if you are having technical issues with your Google Maps reviews. She answers 11 different questions related to this topic...

Webmasters Upset Big Brands Get Personalized Responses From Google's Matt Cutts
Many webmasters know that it is incredibly hard to get a Google representative to respond to their concerns one-on-one, let alone Google's head of search spam, Matt Cutts. Google simply does not have the resources...

Flexible Bid Strategies Comes To Google AdWords
Google announced that soon you will be able to have more flexible bidding methods for your keywords and campaigns. Google is calling this flexible bid strategies and it is coming in the next couple weeks to those who've upgraded to enhanced campaigns...

GeoGuessr: Addictive Google Maps Guessing Game
Spotted via Hacker News a site named geoguessr is an addictive guessing game that has you look at Google Street View imagery and you click on the Google Map to say where that image was taken from...

Bloomberg Cuts The Google NYC Maps Cake


Daily Search Forum Recap: May 21, 2013

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Google AdWords Launched Keyword Ad Planner
Google announced a new keyword tool named the Keyword Planner. The tool can be found under the Tools & Analysis tab when you are logged into your Google AdWords account. The tool combines the benefits of the Keyword Tool and the Traffic Estimator into an integrated workflow...

6 New Data Types Now Supported By Google's Data Highlighter Rich Snippet Tool
The Google Data Highlighter tool, which initially launched in December with support for just marking up pages that had event data...

Search Google & Get Google Now Reminders
Google Now is now more baked into Google Search. For example, if you do a search for [when is fathers day 2013 or other factual dated queries...

Yahoo Spends $1.1 Billion To Be Cool (Buy Tumblr)
I'm sure you heard the news by now, Yahoo has acquired Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion in cash. Seriously...

Google On How To Avoid AdWords Ad Disapproval
Google AdWords support representative, Charvi...

Homer & Bart Mooning The Google Street View Car


Daily Search Forum Recap: May 20, 2013

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...