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…

Instagram is launching a new feature that will allow users to share stories with close friends only. The post Instagram Lets Users Share Stories With a Select Audience by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

YouTube is rolling out its Instagram-like stories to more users, a feature that has been in testing since last year. The post YouTube Stories Are Now Available to More Users by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Dong-Hwi Lee, a Googler, posted in the Google Webmaster Help forums a large FAQs around indexing questions related to AMP. This is a very comprehensive FAQ around the topic and I thought it would be useful to bring more attention to this document to the community.

Frédéric Dubut is a Bing spam fighter, he works on search quality and safety at Bing – we quoted him here a few times.

The Promoted Answers unit has the same targeting options as the platform’s other ad formats. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Who in marketing, advertising or search deserves a candy cane – or a lump of coal – for what they’ve done in 2018? Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

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

This week in search I covered how this morning Google’s removed Search Engine Land from their index this morning by accident. Google started showing zero search results again and it looks like it will stick.

The company issued an explainer on how Facebook search works.