Google has quietly gotten rid of PageRank in Webmaster Tools. Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable points to a thread featuring an explanation from Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa.
Google has launched a couple of new Labs features for Webmaster Tools. One is "malware details" and the other is "fetch as googlebot."
Google is providing snippets of code from pages it considers malware, in order to help webmasters eliminate the malware on their sites quickly.
Google has made some changes to the way Webmaster Tools users verify their websites.
Before, the user's verification meta tag was based (partially) on the email address of their Google account, which meant that if they changed the email address in their account settings, their meta tags would also change, and they'd become unverified for any sites that used the old tag. Google has made a new version of the verification meta tag, which is unrelated to the email address to prevent this from happening.
Google has added a new way for webmasters to tell it which parameters in URLS, they wish to be ignored. They have added a new feature to Google Webmaster Tools called simply, "Parameter Handling." Google provides the following explanation with the feature:
Google has released an update to Webmaster Tools, with the code name "Summer Shine." The update comes with several new features.
The first new feature is that the site selector now lists all verified sites that the user owns. It also allows the user to search as they type.
Google has come up with another nice webmaster tool.
Most people think the Webmaster Tools programs as a bit like black holes. You send in a question, concern or idea and nothing ever happens…it just sort of disappears. Nothing could be farther from the truth. In fact, the truth is light years away from this thinking. Witness Live’s revised and expanded WMT program.
According to Google Webmaster Central Blog, after numerous requests from Webmasters to integrate Webmaster Tools for third-parties, Google has finally released Webmaster Tools API, a tool that integrates API (Application Programming Interface) into Webmaster Tools.
Most posts on Google's official blogs tend to either go unnoticed or be well-received. A recent one announcing the release of Webmaster Tools Gadgets for iGoogle wasn't so lucky.
On Google Webmaster Central Blog and in the post titled "A Festivus for our webmasterus." Google says "If it's good enough for the Costanzas, it's good enough for Webmaster Central: it's time for a Festivus for the rest of us (webmasterus)!"
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