Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

A French court has ordered a blogger to pay a substantial fine and change the title of a restaurant review because the review was too prominent in search results and harmed business at the restaurant. The post has since been removed but can be viewed here (via TechDirt)

A robots.txt file is key component of your website’s SEO, but sometimes these files do more harm than good. For example, your robots.txt file may be blocking search engine spiders from crawling important pages on your site, or it may be preventing your site from being indexed altogether

It appears Google had added another new calendar feature via its knowledge graph box. By searching “schedule appointment” or “add event” while logged into your Google account, Google will deliver a dynamic knowledge graph box that lets you automatically add an event to your… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Google admits that when they launched Google+ over three years ago there were a lot of restrictions on what name could be used on your profile. If you ask Google, they’ll say this was because it “helped create a community made up of real people,” but they’ll also acknowledge that people who wanted to be a part of the community were left out if they didn’t want to use their real name. Google+ even gave me a hard time with using my own real name.

The robots.txt testing tool in Google Webmaster Tools has just received an update to highlight errors causing Google not to crawl pages on your website, let you edit your file, test if URLs are blocked, and also view older robots.txt file versions.

Google has added new translation features, making it easy to edit translation search terms, change languages or hear the translations directly within search.

Yesterday, Google has completely removed the ability to use their discussion search filter. Earlier this year…

RKG released its digital marketing report for Q2 2014 and found organic traffic comprised 31 percent of all website visits in Q2, and mobile traffic grew to make up 34 percent of those visits. Meanwhile, 42 percent of social visits came from mobile.

Google has launched a new app for AdWords Express, the product designed to simplify search advertising for small businesses.