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I’ve been in and out of Google Webmaster tools all day, and its continued to look the same, but suddenly tonight the  interface is a bit different.

The dashboard looks the same but as soon as you get into any domain, there’s a slightly different feel to it. You still can’t see error messages there, though.  (Some RED 404 warnings would sure be nice…)

Once inside a domain, the menu is different, and the convenient tabs are gone, replaced instead by redundant options displayed on the menu and in the page body. Seems pretty dumb to me, but it may be attempting to make room for more goodies to come?  Hope so.

Aww – Top Search Query clicks are still limited to only 20. how lame… Why is that? C’mon, G.

It’s all pretty much the same, but there’s a “subscriber stats” item under Statistics I never noticed before, so you can see how many people are subscribed to your feed, but it says “Google subscribers”.  Can I add my Feed burner feed here, since Boogle owns feed burner? Um… no.

Links options are the same, only now the definitions are bigger for people that need a better explanation of what internal and external mean. That’s helpful.

The only other significant difference I can see, was that I couldn’t look at what I wanted to see in the first place, which was the robots.txt file.  I guess it was a semi pointless tool anyway, but I occasionally used it, and now it’s gone.

No huge changes, I guess, but no huge improvements either, which is a disappointment.

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