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’s Matt Cutts: Links Still Have Many Years Left In Them But…
Matt Cutts, Google’s face of search for webmasters, posted a future telling video yesterday on when and how Google may rely less on links in the future for ranking pages…

Google AdSense Publishers Brace For Lower Earnings In May
A WebmasterWorld thread has some publishers bracing themselves for a pretty bad earnings month via Google AdSense.

Why…

Google Pauses Webmaster Tools SSL Warnings In Order Clarify Them In Future
About a week ago, Google began sending out a nice number of SSL warnings via Google Webmaster Tools.
Google has paused those warnings…

DuckDuckGo Adds Carousel, Auto-Complete, Local Results & More
DuckDuckGo announced the next version of their privacy search engine at https://next.duckduckgo.com/.

Note, this is where users like us can play around with it and give them feedback. DuckDuckGo wants to switch over to the new version in about a month…

Google: We Currently Treat New TLDs As gTLDs
As you may know, there are tons of new TLDs that hit the market, such as .cash, .foo, .best and so on…

Who Knocked Down The Google Visitor Sign?
Someone has knocked down the Google Visitor sign at the GooglePlex. Jessica Walker Del Santo from Google posted a picture of the evidence of the sign laying sadly down on the Google grass. Marvin Ch

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

+Google Shopping Expressis coming to more cities. Starting…, Google – Google+
Amazon Introduces Add To Cart Social Shopping Capability Via Twitter, WebmasterWorld
You’ve been looking for the perfect pair of hiking boots…, Google – Google+