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:

January 2013 Google Update Brewing?
I am seeing some signs (not heavy heavy chatter but enough chatter) of a possible Google update brewing as early as this past Sunday or Monday (yesterday).

Two WebmasterWorld threads have chatter about a possible update…

Google Data Highlighter Won’t Work With Duplicate Content Issues
Google’s data highlighter tool is now about a month old and we are learning more about it every day…

Canonical URL Issues Can Prevent Google Authorship Display
A Google Webmaster Help thread has one webmaster complaining that his author icon is not showing up in the search results. To be honest…

Weather Added To Google News But…
Google News has recently added a “weather” box to the right side bar. Here is a picture of the Google News homepage with the new weather box.

Most newspapers do show the weather in a prime location, so I guess this is a nice touch. However, in this case…

“My Best Day Ever…” Doodle 4 Google Competition Opens
Google has opened up the 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition last night.

This year the theme is “my best day ever…” The Doodle should represent what you imagine your best day ever would be…

Google Docks View
Murat Yatagan, a Google spam fighter, posted a picture of his view from the new Google Docks office. I am not sure how he has any desire to fight webspam when he has such an amazing view. We’ve cov

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

comScore: U.S. December 2012 Search Engine Shares: Bing Up a Little, WebmasterWorld
Discussion: How do you build your brand on various, AdWords Community
Geo-Targeting and hosting a site in multiple countries, WebmasterWorld
How to make link exchange, WebmasterWorld
Is the Huffington Post cheating Google?, Search Engine Watch Forums