Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...

Some savvy SEOs noticed a weird hack that lets you see search results in a state of before the Penguin update. It is pretty wild and no idea if it is legit but it is convincing...

Facebook is now officially listed on the NASDAQ as FB and the shares are currently set at $38. Reminds me of the day GOOG was on NASDAQ and I did not invest. Google was set at $85 and now it is at $623. Where will Facebook's stock go? Who knows...

I love it when old news makes it to larger publications as breaking topics that no one covered before. Ars Technica reports GoogleBot can now index and execute JavaScript and more content behind AJAX. This came from a post by the swapped.cc blog...

The famous and prestigious Guggenheim Museum in New York City is having problems with Google. Despite several weeks of trying to update their phone number in Google Maps...

Today on Google you will see a special pirate looking logo on most properties. That is because the Doodle 4 Google winner was announced last night and that logo is featured on Google globally...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

Here is one more crazy thing for the Penguin Igloo - a search hack that may show you if you were hit by the Penguin update...

Yesterday, Google announced what they are calling the knowledge graph. In short, it provides answers directly in the search results sourced from third parties such as Wikipedia but driven from their acquisition of Metaweb in 2010 and the FreeBase database...

There are new technologies coming out on the web all the time and Google isn't always up to date in understanding the markup used on those web pages. So what does Google do when it doesn't understand the markup...

A thread in the Google AdSense Help forums has a question on a new term being used by Google AdSense named the "API Referral Bounty." It is the left over residue income generated from the Google API Referrals program which expired or sunsetted a few days ago...

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...

These are typically signs of an update happening in Google. Maybe a Panda or Penguin refresh? Maybe a new Google bug? Maybe a new penalty or an old one being run again? Maybe Google is testing an algorithm or update? Or maybe it is something completely different or people are on crack?