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.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

Google’s Matt Cutts On Good Guys Spamming Google
Daniel from Miami asked Matt Cutts of Google a fun question, which Matt turned around and answered almost a year later in a video response…

Google To Slap Link Networks In Italy & Spain
Yesterday, Google’s head spam man, Matt Cutts, issued a stern warning to link spammers in Italy and Spain. This warning will likely be followed up with some unnatural link notifications and ranking penalties within the week…

Google In-Depth Article Testing New Design
In mid-2013 Google began experimenting with a new feature in the search results that went live as in-depth articles in August of last year. Since then they have been experimenting with them to make them richer looking but here is a test to make them look watered down…

Google Webmasters Team Now On Google+
I am not sure what took so long, being that Google+ is so important to Google. The Google Webmasters team finally made their own page on Google+ at +GoogleWebmasters and announced it on Google+…

Google: Convert One US Dollar To “Proper Money” And Get…
I use currency conversion through Google when I travel a lot but one currency I never thought to convert was “proper money.” A search for [1 USD in proper money] converts $1 US to British Pound Sterling if you are searching while in the UK but when you search in the US…

Google Trademarks Their Hallways
Richard Hay of Google snapped a random picture of a random hallway at Google. Yea, that is a massive Google logo plastered across the hallway and even more interesting, it has the TM mark on it. Yea

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Have panos "Pending review for Google Maps" for more than 4 days? Let us know., Google Maps Help
How To Defend a Google AdSense Site From Click Bombing, WebmasterWorld
Visualizing +Google Analyticsdata using R This article is…, Daniel Waisberg – Google+