Publishers report that competitors are spamming Google with fake review websites. The post Publishers Report a Spam Exploit in Google via @martinibuster appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google is investigating possible issues with what appears to be broken search operators. Specifically issues with the related search command and also intitle and inurl commands. Danny from Google said he will investigate and try to find out what is going on.

Bing’s Frédéric Dubut and ex-Googler Fili Wiese covered a wide range of questions in Seattle and will be sharing more insights at SMX East. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The most meaningful speed metric depends on how users interact with your site, said Google’s Martin Splitt. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

The New York Times said it may have seen a “huge” impact from the Google BERT update and by impact it means a decline in search traffic from the search engine.

A study commissioned by DuckDuckGo finds more people would use non-Google search engines if they were offered a choice. The post DuckDuckGo Study Finds More People Would Use Google Alternatives if Given a Choice via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Earlier this month, Bing announced a pilot to allow some publishers to submit content and the HTML to the search engine without Bing having to crawl the page at all. This would effectively remove the requirement to crawl these sites. I asked Google if it is considering doing so as well and the company said no.

Google confirmed it’s rolling out lead form ad extensions, a feature that was recently spotted in testing. The post Google Ads Officially Announces Rollout of Lead Form Extensions via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

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

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announces that Twitter will no longer accept political advertising.