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:

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: January 2, 2015
Happy New Years all! This week I covered a possible Bing search update. I also discussed why my site may have been hit by the Google Panda…
Google: Your HTTPS Site Has Canonicals Pointing To HTTP
Since Google gives a tiny ranking boost for HTTPS sites, many sites have begun switching over.

But if done incorrectly…

Google Quality Algorithms Don’t Bring On Deeper Web Crawls
Often you’ll see the SEO forums light up a bit before an algorithm shift, where SEOs say, wow – GoogleBot activity on my web site is unusually high. This leads people to think an algorithm update may be coming soon. Sometimes they are right, but often not…

Bing Search Algorithm Update On New Years Day?
A Black Hat World thread has one webmaster noticing his rankings significantly shifted within the Bing search results over New Years.

Truth is, very few people would take notice of this being it is (a) Bing and (b) New Years day…

Google’s Sorry Captcha Lives At sorry.google.com
We know sometimes, when you do something on Google, Google wants to verify you are a human and not a robot. So they serve up a captcha for you to prove you are someone typing with real fingers…

Honey, Let’s Take The Kids To Google For Winter Break.
Mark Louie, a Googler, married with three kids, has to come up with creative ideas to keep his family entertained over winter break. But since he works at Google, he has the option of having winter b

Happy New Year 2015 From Google & The Search Engines
Happy New Year 2015 everyone! Today some of the search engines have special logos celebrating the first day of 2015, New Years Day.
Yesterday, we posted some of the…

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

John Mueller talks Panda and Penguin penalties on hangout-30Dec14, WebmasterWorld
Should “Time on Site” Count More?, WebmasterWorld