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:

Extreme Google Search Fluctuations Continue; Not Penguin But Core Update

I hate to cover these things over the weekend but just like the massive fluctuations we saw last weekend, which turned into a core ranking update as confirmed by Google…

Google: Some Of Those SEO Weather Tools Pick Up Wrong Signals

I often use a mix of the SEO weather tools and the SEO community chatter to determine if something is big is happening with a Google Update or not…

Google May Prevent Sites From Passing PageRank When Links Get Bad
Most SEOs know that sites, as a whole, can eventually lose their trust from Google to pass link juice and PageRank. Sometimes this is done…

A Fun Unintentional Google Easter Egg

Google is big into their easter eggs in search, so spotting an unintentional one might be a bit of a challenge. One searcher spotted one and posted it in the Google Web Search Help forums…

Martin Luther King Jr. Day Google Logo Is Live

Every year on Martin Luther King Jr. day in the United States, Google has a special Google Doodle, logo, for the day. Often it is a picture of Martin Luther King Jr. behind a podium speaking…

Google’s Gary Illyes Shares Confidential Screen Shot That Reveals Nothing…
I was upset the other day that I am finding less and less photos from within Google that show fun and exciting things from within the search company. So Gary Illyes was kind of enough to share a scre

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Have You Seen A Google Result Like This Before?, localsearchforum.com
Yahoo Labs Releases 13.5TB of Machine Learning Dataset For Researchers, WebmasterWorld
Want a "Weeping Session"?, WebmasterWorld