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 Slashes Quality Raters Hours; Will It Impact Search Quality?

The SEO industry is in a buzz around a story named The secret lives of Google raters from arstechnica.com but not because of their “secret lives” – because most of us know how they work – we’ve covered them like crazy here.

The big news is that their hours are now being slashed…

Google Black Search Results User Interface Test
A year ago, we covered how Google is testing a black UI test in the search results. We’ve seen the test reported to us several times over the year…

Google Testing Jobs Portal In Web Search

Dan Shure spotted late on Friday a Google search tests where Google was showing jobs…

Google Tests Reviews Tab On Local Knowledge Panel
Our friend Sergey Alakov spotted yet another Google local test, this one is Google testing a tab approach to showing reviews on local knowledge…

Live: Send Recipe To Google Home
Last week, Google announced that you can now send recipes to your Google Home device and ask Google Home to walk you through making…

Google Clotheslines Indoor Dryer
Here is another gem inside the Google Tel Aviv office where they have an indoor clotheslines drying line – well, at least it is there for design. This is probably part of the Kibutz room there. Pazit

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

@JJPattersonSEO @methode I don’t see how that would be bad., John Mueller on Twitter
Microsoft Q3, 2017 Revenues of $22.1 Billion, WebmasterWorld
@rintuseo That’s what the tool is there for 🙂, John Mueller on Twitter
Winning Mobile-First Markets, The Google Advertiser Community