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Craigslist Adult Services Blocked in U.S.

If you live in the United States and you use the Craigslist Adult Services listings, you are out of luck. As first reported on Techcrunch, the section has now been replaced with the word “censored” on their U.S.-based sites.

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Last week Craigslist received a letter from 18 state attorneys general demanding they shut down the adult services section. The letter cited the two girls who said they were trafficked for sex through the website. Police also routinely conduct prostitution stings through the listings and the site has come under heavy criticism from various groups for being used to advertise prostitution with underage girls.

New ways to view Webmaster Tools messages

Webmaster Level: All

Now there’s a new way to see just the messages for a specific site. A new Messages feature will appear on all site pages. The feature is just like the Message Center on the home page, except it‘ll show only messages for the currently selected site. This gives you more freedom to choose how you want to view your messages: either for all your sites, or for just one site at a time.

Rich snippets: testing tool improvements, breadcrumbs, and events

Webmaster Level: All

Since the initial roll-out of rich snippets in 2009, webmasters have shown a great deal of interest in adding markup to their web pages to improve their listings in search results. When webmasters add markup using microdata, microformats, or RDFa, Google is able to understand the content on web pages and show search result snippets that better convey the information on the page. Thanks to steady adoption by webmasters, we now see more than twice as many searches with rich snippets in the results in the US, and a four-fold increase globally, compared to one year ago. Here are three recent product updates.

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