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:

September 2012 Google Webmaster Report
Hope you had a nice Labor Day weekend because it seems like Google was pretty busy over the weekend. There is a lot of chatter at WebmasterWorld over shifts and changes in the search results for some specific niches…

Google Hosts Over 100 Google Webmaster Hangouts
John Mueller, a Google Webmaster Trends Analysts in Zuerich, announced on Google+ that the Google team has hosted over 100 webmaster related Google Hangouts this year.

Wow, a hundred in just about 8 months…

Understand Your Facebook Ecosystem With Wolfram|Alpha
Stephen Wolfram announced that they now let you analyze your Facebook data and history with Wolfram|Alpha Facebook Analytics.

It is pretty cool, but for some reason…

Use Google Maps Starring & Saving? Give Google Feedback.
Daniel from the Google Maps team posted a thread in the Google Maps Help forum asking for feedback on how the Google Maps team can improve the starring and saving features.

Daniel said…

Googley Kippot
Googler Erica Joy reshared a picture from Zev Mo Green who posted pictures of Googley knitted yarmulkes. A yarmulke, aka kippa, is something traditionally worn by Jewish males on their heads. These

Google’s Labor Day Flag & Bing Bees
Today is Labor Day in the United State of America – most people do not work today, so I will likely not blog much today. That being said, I always find it interesting to see which search engines put up logos or mentions of Labor Day on their home page…

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Google is displaying my robots.txt page as a search result, WebmasterWorld
Video Tutorial: The Ultimate Guide To Tiered Link Building, trafficplanet.com
For the love of god – Narrow by Date Bing Search, WebmasterWorld
How long for Google to recognize my new site structure?, WebmasterWorld