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:

International Women’s Day Celebrated By Google

Google has a special logo up today on most of the Google home pages for International Women’s Day.

The special day is on Thursday…

Google Says How Long It Takes For Updates To Places/Maps Listings
Vanessa fron the Google Maps / Places team has documented the typical turnaround time for the various types of Google Maps updates…

Google Webmaster Tools Notifying Of Traffic Drops
It seems like we may have yet another new automated Google Webmaster Tools message for large traffic changes to specific URLs.

A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster claiming he received a notification via Google Webmaster Tools that read…

The Google Purim Costume
Today is a festive Jewish holiday named Purim where one of the customs is to dress up in costumes. This kid, who I think is in Israel, dressed up as Google.

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

300th birthday of Spain national library, Google Blogoscoped Forum
Introducing the redesigned Google Search app for Windows Phone, Google Groups
Updates to Ripples: 60+ languages; see how links get shared…, Geoffrey Borggaard – Google+