Aaron Dicks shared with me on Twitter a weird display for the Google Product Listing Ads/Shopping ads (or whatever they are called now). The ads show as they normally do but the product titles are highlighted in this dark blue color…

Google Webmaster Tools began sending out notices to webmasters who had their content removed from the European versions of Google over the Right To Be Forgotten law in the European Union…

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

Yahoo has announced another round of product cuts and changes, all part of what it calls a continued effort on “furthering our focus.” The most notable cut announced today is the upcoming closure of both Yahoo Voices (voices.yahoo.com) and the Yahoo Contributor Network… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Have you ever wondered how many times a Vine video has been viewed? Now you will see loop counts on videos to indicate how many times people have looped a video, including on Vine and in embeds across the web. In an announcement posted yesterday, Vine says that loop counts will be immediately available on iOS and Android mobile apps, as well as on the web.

Last week, we reported that Google dropped the authorship image from the search results for good. But we also documented how the Google Structured Data Testing Tool still showed the old format..

Pedro Dias, a former Google employee who worked on the Search Quality and Webspam team for years, said on Twitter that Google is less likely to trust a link after it is modified…

A new tool designed to show the author authority of content creators was recently launched by ClearVoice. The new tool is a no-cost, web-based platform that offers an index of 90,000 authenticated writer profiles, along with a numeric score valuing overall content influence.