This is the last Google Webmaster Report of 2009 and it was a pretty busy month. The main changes this past month was Caffeine going live on one data center, the new user fade in interface is live, personalized search becoming the default and Google’s attempts to appease the news business.

You can read last months report in the November ’09 webmaster write up. The new WebmasterWorld thread does not have a lot of new chatter going on. The normal ranking fluctuations discussions are going on. One person said the UK results match the US results on November 4th. But overall, not much chatter in that thread going on.

Here are the Google highlights for the past month:

Google UI Changes:
Google Sticks with Fade In Home Page Despite Searchers Hating ItLarger Google Images & Region Tags In Google Search ResultsGoogle Jazz User Interface Out In The WildGoogle Testing Related Searches Tab on Top Navigation Bar?Google URL Search Results Snippets Showing Breadcrumb NavigationGoogle Finally Tries Page Previews

Google Policy Change:
First Five Click Free Program: Google Revises FCF Program

Google SEO Related:
Google Caffeine Index Now on a Google Data Center: 209.85.225.103Major Google Search Thanksgiving ’09 Update? Caffeine Related?Google Caffeine Index Goes Live Right Before Holiday Shopping SeasonSEOs Freak Out: Google To Personalize All Search ResultsGoogle Does Real Time Search : See It For PopeyeRich Snippets Now in Google UK & Other Non-US PropertiesGoogle Confirms Bug With Sitelinks Where You Can Link To CompetitorsWill Google Analytics Hurt My Google Rankings? Speed Issues?Page Load Time & Speed Will Likely Be a Ranking Factor in GoogleGoogle Page Speed Report Comes to Webmaster Tools

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.