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 Releases New Hacked Site Algorithm Impacting 5% Of Queries

Google announced they are now making efforts to “aggressively targeting hacked spam in order to protect users and webmasters…

Google AdWords Location Based Ad Customizers Enabled

Google quietly announced on Google+ that you can now use ad customizers based on the location the searcher is searching for your business…

Google AdWords Shopping Assortment Report For Products You Don’t Sell

You might sell red boots online but not blue ones…

Google: It’s Correct That Panda Is Manually Being Pushed Slowly At Intervals – Really?

I don’t always say this but I think Google misspoke here. Gary Illyes responded to a question from Glenn Gabe asking if “Panda 4.2 is rolling out slowly, but it’s manually being pushed (at intervals).”

Gary Illyes from Google said “yes…

Google Confirms They’d Use Rel=Author If More People Were Using It

At SMX East, Gary Illyes from Google told us to not remove author markup that Google may decide to use it once again in the future. It was an awkward moment at SMX…

Google Hamburger
Ever wonder what a hamburger looks like when a Google chef makes it? Jack Fermon of Google is at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California and he snapped a picture of a hamburger made at Goo

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

@methode @RyanRicketts @JohnMu I think it doesn’t support it at the moment., Zineb Ait on Twitter
"@glenngabe @methode @Missiz_Z AFAIK that will change later on, it’s still early for this change. (Also, there’s nothing bad with 302s).", John Mueller on Twitter
It was a surprise, to me at least, that I wasn’t able to find a good fit at…, Google+ – Greg Linden
Breaking news time: high quality UGC is GREAT for your site. Crack down on lowq UGC instead of getting rid of it altogether #defcon1, Gary Illyes on Twitter
From .accountant to .zone, 90+ new domain name endings now available from…, Google+ – Google
Google Display Network Going 100% Viewable, WebmasterWorld
If your Android’s upgraded to Marshmallow (6.0), you can now translate text…, Google+ – Google Translate
Structured data isn’t just for rich snippets in search, you can also use them…, Google+ – John Mueller