With the demise of the Open Directory Project, DMOZ, and now NOODP tag being superflous, it's worthwhile making sure you have great META Description tags.

In April a story broke that Google was to introduce an ad blocker to Chrome, however, it was slightly misunderstood, but expalined in a detailed thread at WebmasterWorld.

According to researchers, some game apps in the Google Play store are harboring links to ad click bot malware, and it's reckoned the apps have been downloaded by as much as 80 million times.

Google released a post today

Google said its Ad Hub, in beta, should be able to connect advertiser budgets to buyers making offline purchases in stores, through its tracking and credit card transactions.

There's a comprehensive assessment, from a webmaster perspective, of search engine robots detailed in a thread on WebmasterWorld.

There are several reports of Google testing removal of the organic listing if the same site is in an aswer box, or featured snippet.

The conversation is over at WebmasterWorld

Is the party already ending before is started for snap?

Google is now showing events in its app and mobile web in the U.S., so if you have an event you can add your code and, hopefully, it'll list the event.

Over at WebmasterWorld there's a thread about a member considering moving back from HTTPS to HTTP because of the site and pages dropping in the SERPs.

We all know about Google Raters, but there's an interesting article where some raters have spoken out over a cut in their hours. There's some interesting detail in the full article.

Google has decided to talk about some of the search quality improvements it has made to improve search quality.

The big question asked: Is it time to break up Google?

Man oh man oh man - this is pretty sleazy. A New York business owner received a court injunction in 2012 to get some negative reviews removed from Google search results.

A team of researchers has invented a new kind of ad blocker that "reinvent[s] how ad-blocking works."

You probably already know this, but the mobile web uses a lot less links than the "desktop" web.

With the way automated Penguin works (by devaluing incoming links) webmasters have been asking for months about their disavow files. Are they still useful? Should they still be maintained?

To fight fake news and "alternative facts," Google is highlighting other fact checking sources in rich snippets for certain queries.

If you do a local search, you might see Bing's latest test where you can ask a chatbot questions about the businesses listed.