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Today on the Google home page is a special Google logo (aka Doodle) for Niels Bohr 127th birthday.

He was born today in 1885 Copenhagen, Denmark. He is known for his contributions to the understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics. In fact, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922 for those contributions. One of his sons, Aage Bohr, also received the Nobel Prize.

He was one of the most influential Physics of the 20th century, known for Copenhagen interpretation, Complementarity, Bohr model, Sommerfeld–Bohr theory, BKS theory, Bohr-Einstein debates and Bohr magneton.

You can learn more about his life at Wikipedia.

As you can see, the Google Doodle today is pretty science looking.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.

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.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Video: Google EMD, Panda & Image Updates – Oh My! Facebook Stats & More
  
  It was a crazy week, but honestly, I think this may be one of my best videos, so please have your friends watch it as well. This week I discuss the confusion with Google’s search results due to all the updates that overlapped. We had…
• 1 Of 7 People In The World Is On & Active On Facebook
  
  Facebook announced there are now over one billion active people on Facebook.
  
  Did you know there is just under 7 billion living people in this world…




• How To See Google Maps Street Views On iOS
  
  Google announced they have brought street view imagery to the mobile version of Google Maps.
  
  Since Google doesn’t have an iOS app available for iPhone users…




• Google’s 65 Search Updates For Aug & Sep Is Missing Updates
  
  I have to say I am a bit concerned and I didn’t think about this when I covered the 65 changes announced by Google yesterday on Search Engine Land…




• How Do You Know If Google Panda Or EMD Hurt Your Site?
  
  As you know by now, Thursday/Friday of last week, we had two pretty important Google updates. We had an EMD update on Friday and a Panda update begin on Thursday and continue throughout this week.
  
  The question webmasters and SEOs are asking themselves, if they saw a drop in Google traffic…




• The Subtle Google Bus
  
  Have you ever seen a Google bus? Well, they aren’t very subtle or low key, in fact, they want you to know they are buses operated for Google. Richard Hay, a Googler, shared a picture of a Google Bus

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

• Google Flight Search is now available on tablet, which…, Google – Google+
• Google Settles U.S. Authors Book Scanning Lawsuit, WebmasterWorld
• Toolbar Pagerank Update?, WebmasterWorld

It was a crazy week, but honestly, I think this may be one of my best videos, so please have your friends watch it as well. Note, I am offline Monday and Tuesday but hope to schedule stories. This week I discuss the confusion with Google’s search results due to all the updates that overlapped. We had the Exact Match Domain (EMD) update on Friday, September 28th. We also had a Panda algorithm update released between Thursday, September 27th through this weekend. We even had an image update over last weekend. It is just way to confusing for webmasters. That being said, why didn’t the Google search quality update announcement mention any of these updates? Google released more detailed and comprehensive webmaster guidelines. AJ Kohn shared some really interesting insights into Google authorship markup and how they change the search results. Google told us that your Google authorship won’t impact sites across properties. Google is retiring AdSense for fees, Google News badges, Google custom backgrounds, +1 reporting in Webmaster Tools and much more. Why oh why does the Senate equate SEO with scam? 87% said ODP has little impact on rankings. 54% feel FeedBurner will be killed off soon. Facebook reached over 1 billion active users, that is about 20% of the world. Sassi Bob did a video about a story I wrote on Wikipedia. She is cute but completely wrong. Although she made this video a heck of a lot better, don’t you think (let me know in the comments). That was this past week at the Search Engine Roundtable.

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Search Topics of Discussion:

• Google EMD Update: Exact Match Domains No Longer Rank As Well
• Cutts: Google Launched Another Update During The EMD Update (i.e. Panda 20)
• 20th Google Panda Algorithm Update: Fairly Major
• How Do You Know If Google Panda Or EMD Hurt Your Site?
• Google Image Search Ranking Update
• Google’s 65 Search Updates For Aug & Sep Is Missing Updates
• What’s New & Important With Google’s New Webmaster Guidelines
• Google Author Benefits: Extra Links, More Visibility & Easy
• Google: No Impact On Ranking Based On Linkage Of Google Profile
• Google Kills News Badges, Background Images, AdSense For Feeds & Webmaster Tools +1s
• When Will It Be Politically Incorrect To Associate SEO With Scam?
• 87% Says ODPs Don’t Overly Matter For Rankings
• 54% Say FeedBurner Will Be Shut Down Within 12 Months
• 1 Of 7 People In The World Is On & Active On Facebook
• Sassi BoB On Why Search Data Should Be Public

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Facebook announced there are now over one billion active people on Facebook.

Did you know there is just under 7 billion living people in this world? According to the World Bank, as of the end of 2011, there were 6,973,738,433 people in this world.

So one out of seven people not only have accounts on Facebook but are actively using Facebook. That is 15% of the world. Not bad!

Well, think about this more.

To use and sign up with Facebook, you must be 13 years old or older. So how many people does that eliminate from the 7 billion people in this world? There are also many people who are not able to have internet, can’t afford computers and don’t know how to turn on a computer. Would you say that eliminates about 2 billion people all together, maybe more? I don’t have those numbers.

So let’s say there are 5 billion people who potentially can use Facebook. 20% of the eligible world is actively using Facebook?

Wow.

I guess this includes fake accounts.

That being said, Facebook is massive, just massive.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

Google announced they have brought street view imagery to the mobile version of Google Maps.

Since Google doesn’t have an iOS app available for iPhone users, Google is beefing up their mobile version for them. Part of that is making available street views on their mobile version.

It works a bit differently than the desktop version. You simply cannot drag and drop a pegman on a street. You need to search for a local listing, like a pizza store, click on the marker on the map and then click on the pegman on the bottom right.

Here is a picture of the two steps you need to take AFTER you search for a local listing:

Then when you click on the Pegman, it will open a street view in a new window and not overlay it on the map:

Forum discussion at Google+.

Have you ever seen a Google bus? Well, they aren’t very subtle or low key, in fact, they want you to know they are buses operated for Google.

Richard Hay, a Googler, shared a picture of a Google Bus on Google+ saying:

[sarcasm]

So at Google we role low key buses

No way anyone could target them because they are in stealth mode

[/sarcasm]

Too funny. But I guess it comes in handy to spot these when the Google bus breaks down.

This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.

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.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• 20th Google Panda Algorithm Update: Fairly Major
  
  Yesterday we broke the news that there was an other update that overlapped the EMD update that we had on friday targeting exact match domains.
  I wasn’t sure what that update was, so I emailed our friends at Google and Matt Cutts responded that it was a Panda update that began to roll out on Thursday and has been continuing to roll out even today and will likely finish rolling out through the weekend.
  This is not a basic data refresh to the Panda algorithm, it is an update to the algorithm itself. Meaning…




• One Week Later: Nudity Still In Google’s Search Results
  
  Over a week ago, a searcher complained in the Google Web Search Help forums that when you search for [juvo] in Google, the images that show in the web results have an image that is of three women who are completely nude…




• SEOs Discuss The Next Generation Of SEO
  
  Tedster started a thread at WebmasterWorld to kick off a nice and future thinking discussion around the future of SEO practices and techniques. He named the thread, next generation SEO…




• Google’s Internationalization SEO FAQ
  
  Did you know Google has an official FAQ, frequently asked questions, document just on the internationalization of your site…




• Sassi BoB On Why Search Data Should Be Public
  
  This morning, +Karol Dziedzic notified me that I have “really sexy e-fans.” It turns out, +Sassi BoB from AuthorityLabs made a video on a story I wrote at Search Engine Land named Wikipedia Releases Search Data To Public But Pulls It After Privacy Concerns…




• Peter Gabriel Playing At The GooglePlex
  
  I spotted this picture on Flickr taken by Jared Kelly of Peter Gabriel, the famous singer while he was visiting Google at their Mountain View headquarters. He seems to be having a fun time, don’t you

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

• Hockeydb.com redux – 161 days of penalty, Google Webmaster Help
• Twitter To Roll Out Free Survey Tool To Big Advertisers, WebmasterWorld
• Google Groups Creation, Error (#681), Google Web Search Help

Yesterday we broke the news that there was an other update that overlapped the EMD update that we had on friday targeting exact match domains.

I wasn’t sure what that update was, so I emailed our friends at Google and Matt Cutts responded that it was a Panda update that began to roll out on Thursday and has been continuing to roll out even today and will likely finish rolling out through the weekend.

This is not a basic data refresh to the Panda algorithm, it is an update to the algorithm itself. Meaning, new sites and old sites are more likely to be impacted even without making any changes. In fact, Matt said 2.4% of English queries were impacted and 0.5% of non-English queries were impacted.

Here is the quote:

Google began rolling out a new update of Panda on Thursday, 9/27. This is actually a Panda algorithm update, not just a data update. A lot of the most-visible differences went live Thursday 9/27, but the full rollout is baking into our index and that process will continue for another 3-4 days or so. This update affects about 2.4% of English queries to a degree that a regular user might notice, with a smaller impact in other languages (0.5% in French and Spanish, for example).

Panda Overlaps EMD Update

Now, this is overlapping the EMD update! So it would be hard for some EMDs to know if the EMD update hurt them or if it was a Panda update that hurt them. I hate when Google does this but they likely had good reason to do so. Matt Cutts is not dumb, he understands the webmaster – despite what most of you think – and he made a conscious decision to let a major Panda update overlap the EMD update.

Panda #20: Why Not Panda 4.0

Why are we moving away from version numbers for the Panda update? Technically, I would have named it Panda 4.0, but Danny Sullivan decided he rather just number them based on how many updates there have been. So we had 20 Panda updates and only 2 Penguin updates (at least on the record).

Past Google Panda Update:

• Panda #20 on September 27th
• Panda 3.9.2 on September 18th
• Panda 3.9.1 on August 20th
• Panda 3.9 on July 24th
• Panda 3.8 on June 25th
• Panda 3.7 on June 9th
• Panda 3.6 on April 27th
• Panda 3.5 on April 19th
• Panda 3.4 on March 23rd
• Panda 3.3 on about February 26th
• Panda 3.2 on about January 15th
• Panda 3.1 on November 18th
• Panda 2.5.3 on October 19/20th
• Panda 2.5.2 on October 13th
• Panda 2.5.1 on October 9th
• Panda 2.5 on September 28th
• Panda 2.4 in August
• Panda 2.3 on around July 22nd.
• Panda 2.2 on June 18th or so.
• Panda 2.1 on May 9th or so.
• Panda 2.0 on April 11th or so.
• Panda 1.0 on February 24th

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld, Google+ and Google Webmaster Help.

Did you know Google has an official FAQ, frequently asked questions, document just on the internationalization of your site?

It is designed to help SEOs and webmasters make their sites localized and internationalized while considering the impact on search engines.

In fact, John Mueller of Google supposedly wrote most of the document, which you can find over here.

There are 24 different common questions asked and answered here, here they are:

• What’s the best URL structure for a multilingual site?
• What can I do if a user reaches the “wrong language” version of my pages?
• Google shows the “translate” link for my page in the search results, even though my page is already in the language used when searching. How can I prevent this?
• Should I use character encodings or HTML entities for non-ASCII characters?
• Can I use automated translations?
• Do you support multilingual content in rich media files like Flash?
• Can I use meta tags to specify the language of a page?
• What’s the best URL structure for a multi-national (geotargeted) site?
• Is the server location important for geotargeting?
• Is it possible to geotarget with a CDN?
• Apart from ccTLDs, Webmaster Tools, and server location, what can play a role in geotargeting?
• What can I do if a user reaches the “wrong country” version of my pages?
• I want to target the whole world; what should I do?
• Can I use meta tags to specify geotargeting?
• Can I target different English-speaking countries separately with the same content?
• Can I use “rel alternate hreflang” across domains / across TLDs?
• Does “rel alternate hreflang” replace geotargeting?
• Since this markup can be specified in an XML Sitemap file, should I use separate Sitemap files for each language and location?
• I use “rel-alternate-hreflang” on my pages, why does it sometimes not work?
• Can I use “rel=canonical” together with “rel-alternate-hreflang”?
• How can I check the indexing of my multilingual or multiregional content?
• Can I use non-English / non-ASCII URLs?
• Can I block individual countries from accessing my content?
• Can I use interstitials in some countries?

Forum discussion at Google+.

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.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

• Cutts: Google Launched Another Update During The EMD Update
  
  Friday afternoon, Google launched a major algorithm update coined as being “minor” that targeted low quality exact match domains – the EMD update. That being said, to make things even more confusing, @GregrySmith was able to get Google’s Matt Cutts to confirm that the EMD update was not the only update happening at that time. Matt confirmed on Twitter that at least one other update was released around the same time.




• What’s New & Important With Google’s New Webmaster Guidelines
  
  As expected, Google has updated their Webmaster Guidelines to really add more examples and go deeper on specific topics that might not have been covered before in the guidelines…




• Google May Be Formatting Your Phone Number Incorrectly
  
  There is yet another known bug with Google Maps / Places as verified by Jade Wang of Google.
  
  Jade said in a Google Places Help thread that some (not many) international Google pages “that went through the new verification/merge process are having their phone numbers reformatted…




• Google: No Impact On Ranking Based On Linkage Of Google Profile
  
  Let’s say you are like me and you write at a few different sites where your Google authorship is linked to all those sites. For example…




• Google Kills News Badges, Background Images, AdSense For Feeds & Webmaster Tools +1s
  
  Google, late late Friday, announced they are doing more “spring cleaning” of limited used products and services or products and services they rather not continue with…




• Shhh. We’re At A Google+ Party
  
  What does a Google+ party look like? I spotted a picture of one on Flickr where you see balloons and Google+ signs with people just on their mobile devices. Yep, no one is talking to each other. Tha

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

• Look, it’s +Barry Schwartz in the news for “Technology”…, Max Minzer – Google+
• A great update from Webmaster Tools: When we discover…, Pierre Far – Google+
• Get the basics right: How to improve your CTR, AdWords Community
• Large white arrows with blue background, WebmasterWorld
• Webmaster tools, Not selected and “preferred domain”, Google Webmaster Help
• October 2012 AdSense Earnings and Observations, WebmasterWorld