Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger experienced major outages in various parts of the world on Thursday, November 28. The post Facebook and Instagram Go Down Across the World on Thanksgiving Day via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Today is a holiday in the United States and I will just post this recap of some of the logos from Google and Bing for the holiday. Google has “hand turkeys” and Bing goes with some fierce looking turkeys on its home page.

Yesterday I was doing some searches to see when the holiday decorations come up (I do weird searches all the time) and up came Google Shopping Ads that were a bit adult in nature. Specifically selling lingerie and adult oriented costumes. Yes, for the search term [christmas]

For centuries, American families and friends have come together on Thanksgiving Day to feast and give thanks for all of life’s beautiful gifts. But I’ve said it once , and I’ll say it again—Thanksgiving isn’t limited to one day in the TopRank Marketing realm.

Google’s John Mueller said a word I kind of dislike, “impossible.” But technically it is true. He said, it would be impossible for Google to index the whole web. This was in response to why Google has not indexed all the pages in a sitemap for a specific web site.

There is a new theory out about that Google Local update from earlier in this month, nicknamed the Bedlam update.

The folks at SEMRush spotted Google offering searches tips and tricks for searching when Google has no results to offer the searcher. We spotted Google doing something similar but not without giving that searcher any tips, instead just saying “Hmm…

Social networks will account for a greater share of programmatic digital display ad dollars in 2019 than originally expected. The post Paid Social Performs Better Than Expected This Year, New Report Says via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal

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