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:

Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: August 17, 2012
Busy week and I am currently on vacation, actually only slept about two hours last night, so excuse the quick and quiet video. Google talked about Penguin at SES this week and I may have misquoted…
A Google Ranking Shuffle On August 16th?
There are many signals in the webmaster forums that show that there was a possible significant Google ranking shuffle yesterday morning and throughout yesterday. I suspect as webmasters wake up and look at their analytics it will help confirm or deny this…

Google Treats Subdomains As Internal To The Domain In Webmaster Tools
Back just about a year ago, we covered a change on how webmaster tools handles subdomains. I since forgot about that and now I see John Mueller from Google explaining it again in a Google Webmaster Help thread…

Google FAQ On Upgrading To New Local Google+ Pages
Jade from Google posted a nice FAQ style in the Google Business Help forums on if you should verify to the new social Google+ local business page or not…

Want A Google Penalty? Listen To Google AdSense
A WebmasterWorld thread has several Google AdSense publishers reporting they received a message from Google to place ads at the top left of their content in order to increase ad exposure, clicks and obviously earnings…

Google NYC Subway Bench
Chris Schrier posted a picture on Google+ of one of the seating options in one of Google New York City’s conferences room. Clearly this goes after a transit theme by having a NYC subway bench in the

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Google Maps for Android – 6.10 update, Google Maps Help
Twitter Tightens Rules For Developers With API V1.1, WebmasterWorld
We’re bringing support to 13 new languages for Voice Search…, Google – Google+