Google’s Paul Haahr, a lead ranking engineer at Google for 14+ years, had a nice conversation with the SEO community yesterday on Twitter.

Google seems to be testing a new ad format, with a green app like looking phone icon. This is in addition to the blue subtle call phone icon

According to legislation adopted by the European Union, Google is not considered to be a search engine.

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

Google has quietly rolled out a new feature to search which demonstrates various animal noises when the phrase “animal noises” is entered into the search bar.

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Google seems to have launched movie listing results that link directly to Fandango’s web site or mobile app. If you search for local movie listings in Google, Google will output them and link you over to Fandango to do the final purchase…

The always-on, multiple-device consumer has changed all the rules of customer engagement.

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