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:

Google Dance 2017 A Huge Success

Last night, Google had an event for webmasters, SEOs and SEMs called the Google Dance. It was an event they ran annually and then stopped doing for some time until last year and has now done again, a second time in a row…

Google Responds To Allegations Of Former Googler Spamming

Several days ago, rumors started surfacing on Twitter that a former Google representation, a senior one, is now playing for the other team – spamming the search engine. Of course, no names were released but supposedly…

Google Mobile First Index Will Launch When Results Are “Quality Neutral”

Yesterday, at SMX West during the mobile-first index panel…

Google Local Reviews With Guardian Top Ten Icon

Glass Digital shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing extra local review data from the popular UK paper, The Guardian. In fact…

Google Local Business Reviews With Emojis

So we’ve seen emojis in ads, search console, shopping campaigns…

Google UK Floppy Disc & CD Wall
Anna Potanina posted this picture on Instagram of the Google London office showing a wall decorated in old school floppy disks and CDs. Remember the days where you got a packet of floppy discs to ins

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

A lighthearted SearchResearch challenge this week–bees, tees, virus warnings…, Google+ – Dan Russell
DYK Googlebot doesn’t render what it crawled? It’s the indexer, Caffeine, that does the rendering. https://t.co/uYaPnqNFrf, Gary Illyes on Twitter
Get the latest AdWords tips and guides straight to your inbox: https://goo.gl…, Google+ – Google Ads
See how we protect more than 1.4 billion Android users and their data in our …, Google+ – Google
Share your trips and real-time location from Google Maps, Google Maps Help