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:

The Google Traffic Tease
Most SEOs and webmasters have experienced this on one of the sites they’ve worked on. Many call it the Google traffic tease…
2012 Link Building Tools
A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around which tools you should consider using to make the link building process easier in 2012…
Google’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Logo For 2012
Today is 83rd birthday, and Google has a special logo for the day. Well, actually, it is the 83rd and one day birthday – but America celebrates today as Martin Luther King Day…

Google News Misquotes Ron Paul With Racist Quote
In short, Google News has a section for Ron Paul News and at the top, places a recent quote. Back then, the quote they pulled was extremely racist and misquoted…

Google Boxer Shorts
Google’s Louis Gray posted a picture of Google boxer shorts on his Google+ page. He said they are the official Google boxer shorts. Maybe this means he wears boxers and not briefs. In any event, I…

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Does google monitor & reward links in gmail as social signals?, WebmasterWorld
Looks Like This Site is Scraping the Whole Internet, WebmasterWorld
Webmaster Tools internal link counts are wrong, WebmasterWorld
Word file (noindexed) showing first with site: command, WebmasterWorld
Doodle children’s day, Google Blogoscoped Forum
Doodle Taiwan elections, Google Blogoscoped Forum