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:

What SEO Geeks Argue About
This morning, I spotted a group of SEOs arguing about if a URL can be “indexed” if the page is blocked by a noindex tag or robots.txt file…

Will Socially Awkward Sites Suffer In Google In The Long Run?
A WebmasterWorld thread asks a question probably on the mind of many site owners today. The question asked, “Is my site doomed because I won’t go social…

Unicode URLs May Have Issues In Bing
A Bing Webmaster Help thread has some users reporting issues on how Bing handles unicode URLs within Bing Webmaster Center and the robots.txt handling…

Check Your Competitors Rich Snippets Quickly With This Bookmarklet
AJ Kohn posted a new quick tool he put together to allow people to quickly test a page’s rich snippets markup.

The tool is very basic, it is a bookmarklet that takes you to the Google Rich Snippets testing tool but automatically fills in the URL of the page you are on…

Google Kippah
Martin Gordon took a picture of a street vendor in Israel who is selling Kippahs, male Jewish head coverings, with the logos from our favorite internet companies. The logos include Google, Facebook,

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

ZDNet blogger outs an SEO spammer, Google Webmaster Help
Proposal for a new Google product: Book count, WebmasterWorld
Will changing the ads on my site affect my SERPs?, WebmasterWorld
”Strict” safe search is not even close to being strict!, Google Webmaster Help
Doodle May Ziade’s birthday, Google Blogoscoped Forum
Pipe symbol in page titles can cause odd search results, WebmasterWorld