Vlog #164: David Melamed On Search Spam’s Long Term Search Success & Can Others Compete With Google

Here is another batch of Microsoft Bing Search tests and features that were caught out in the wild that I wanted to share with you. They include

The Bing Webmaster Tools API might have a week of data loss, a data gap, if you will. There was some sort of issue where the API was not returning data after March 3rd and then after Glenn Gabe reported it to Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel, Microsoft fixed the issue but there is two weeks or so of data loss between March 3rd and March 17th

Google is showing a green leaf label that says “pre-owned” on Google Shopping results, which I guess are pre-owned. This shows both in the desktop and mobile Google Search shopping results.