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:

SearchMetrics Shows Expedia’s Google Traffic Return, But Did It Ever Drop?
In January, we reported how Expedia may have been penalized by Google because SearchMetrics showed a huge drop in search visibility for the company’s website.

Now, after about three months, SearchMetrics is showing an increase in their Google traffic…

Publishers Upset Over New Google AdSense Earnings Screen
A WebmasterWorld thread has several publishers upset over the new beta Google AdSense console. Their issue is, the overview screen is missing two data points they enjoy seeing…

Two Top SEM Firms Featured As Offering Poor SEM Results By WSJ
It is not every day you see SEM companies featured in Wall Street Journal articles but a few weeks ago, they ran a story named Small Businesses Search in Vain for Web-Ad Help.
It isn’t good.
It calls out two very large SEM companies …

Google Shows Ratings Snippet 8 Out Of 11?
Dan Barker spotted a fun rich snippet in Google where the ratings displayed for an IMDB movie result was 8 out of 11. Out of 11, not 10…

JFK Security Bins With Yahoo Ads
Danny Sullivan, a couple weeks ago went through JFK airport. Yea, I know, I feel bad for him. But he did spot something interesting on the search side. Ads from Yahoo directly in the security belt b

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Best Way to Report Group of Related SPAM Sites to Google?, WebmasterWorld
Code to Learn Contest launches in India Calling all kids…, John Mueller – Google+
Twitter Introduces Language Targeting In Accounts and Tweets, WebmasterWorld
We’re celebrating Parents’ Day in Korea with a doodle…, Google – Google+