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:

December 2013 Google Webmaster Report
It was a pretty busy month for Google over the last 30 days or so. We had a few ranking changes going on at Google. All of them were unconfirmed by Google.
We also had…

Google’s Matt Cutts: We Don’t Like Content Stitching
Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video yesterday explaining that “stitching content” is a bad idea. In short, stitching content is when you take snippets from various articles across the web and place it on a single page…

Sorry Edmunds & Yahoo Autos: Google Added Cars To Knowledge Graph
Google announced yesterday on Google+ that they have added car/automobile results to the knowledge graph…

Google Slips Up & Shows New AdWords Ad Format On Google+
We’ve been covering Google experimenting with a new AdWords ad format…

Google AdSense Enables Performance Reports In Localized Currency
Google announced a new feature within the Google AdSense publisher console to allow publishers to see their performance reports in their own currency of choice…

Santa Tracking Tools From Google & Microsoft Live
Both Google and Microsoft have launched their Santa tracking tools…

Penguin Biking Captured On Google Maps Street View
Google Maps often shares fun and/or interesting street view images on their Google+ account. The one they shared yesterday was somewhat mocking SEOs, or maybe they are clueless, by showing a penguin

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

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