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:

Title Tags Influence Over Outbound Links
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion on the topic of the influence over a page’s title tag and the outbound links on that page.

In short…

Sick & Tired Of Google AdWords Quality Score
Google made AdWords famous with their Quality Score component. I am not going to explain what Quality Score is, for that, read here. But advertisers, long time advertisers are becoming really tired of it…

Google AdWords To Lower Case Domains
Google announced they will begin lowercasing the domain and subdomains of the display ads for AdWords.

Let me show you what this means. If I wanted my ad to have a display URL that looked like www.RustyBrick.com…

Significant Delays For Google News Submissions
Before the 2010/2011 holiday season, Google News informed us their would be a slow down in reviewing sites for inclusion in Google News. Harvey P. from Google said this would last “through the end of the year.”

Yesterday…

Quilt: iPhone With Google
A picture of an iPhone with Google’s home page on a quilt.

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Image Ads Gone Wild, WebmasterWorld
Email from Adwords Offering Help/Consult, WebmasterWorld
Googlebot looking for strange non-existent URLs, WebmasterWorld
Introducing The Google Science Fair, Google Blogoscoped Forum
vBulletin Warns that reCAPTCHA Cracked, WebmasterWorld
Are local results killing first page link traffic in Google?, WebmasterWorld
How to use the link operator in Google Real Time Results, Sphinn
I’m interested in why Google hasn’t publicised the proximity function, Google Web Search Help
Overstock.com’s Google Rankings – any ideas on what they did?, WebmasterWorld