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 Apps Accounts Now Can Verify Their Google+ Pages
Earlier this year, we reported that Google was working on a way for Google Apps accounts to verify Google+ pages.

A few months later…

Google Testing Cache/Similar Drop Down Links More
In February we reported this but it seems like the test Google is running to show “similar” and “cache” links in a drop down on the right side of the search snippet is starting to grow.

Here is a picture:

This picture was from a video of it in action by tecnonetblog…

Squidoo Now NoFollows Their Outbound Links
Squidoo, a huge user generated content web site founded by Seth Godin…

Google’s Cutts: Buying Links Doesn’t Hurt???
A recent video from Google’s head of search spam , Matt Cutts named If a site linking to mine gets caught selling links, what happens to my site…

Google Rolling Out New Places Design & Features
Google announced they are gradually rolling out a new and improved Google Business Places page dashboard. The new dashboard is easier to use, enables you to make edits that go live sooner…

Lexus With Google Self Driving Technology
Google’s Brandon Badget posted a picture of a Google self driving car on the road, but not just any self driving car, a Lexus. He wrote on his Google+ page, “Self driving Google Lexus on the right. #

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Amazon Web Services, Google Webmaster Help
Fake BingBot, WebmasterWorld
Unnatural Link Penalty – What Does “Recovery” Mean?, WebmasterWorld
New to Google AdWords Hangout series: Master the b…, AdWords Community
Upload and share full-size photos from your desktop Back…, Jon Emerson – Google+