Google shows about ten Sesame Streets logos over three days for their 40th anniversary. Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL and others dressed up for Halloween. Google's home page fade adds "this space left blank," and it is ridiculous. AdSense is testing...
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Yesterday, Danny covered a new user interface Google is testing on about 2% of their users right now.
There is some early discussion over at WebmasterWorld that Microsoft Bing has updated their search index.
The other day, I noticed a thread at Google Webmaster Help where a person was complaining that they were being hit hard by GoogleBot.
First spotted by Kim at AdWords Help Experts Blog, a Google AdWords Help thread has reports that Google is now enforcing the 35 character display URL limit set on AdWords ads.
Yahoo announced they have added a developing news box that includes news articles, pictures, videos and also tweets.
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.
I have been seeing reports of Google banning and disabling AdSense accounts due to using a Firefox plugin named Tamper Data.
A Google Maps Help thread reports that at least one satellite image in South Africa has a weird posterization effect to it.
About a week ago, Bing announced they have taken Bing UK (www.bing.co.uk) out of beta. They basically said, you can now get more relevant UK results when in the UK and searching in the UK.
For years, email spammers have been looking for ways to encourage people to click on their links. And for years, Google has been a target.