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 Panda 2.5 Reversed Or Updated
So the Panda 2.5 update was pushed out by Google on September 28th and then on October 4/5th, Google promised tweaks and some site’s hit, confirmed being back and recovered fully.

SearchMetrics reports that 10 of the 30 sites they reported being hit…

Matt Cutts Provides Support For Banned Site at HackerNews
Many of us know, Google’s Matt Cutts latest online hangout is HackerNews, oh, and yes, Google +. I often see Matt Cutts, the head of the Google webspam team, responding to Google complaints at HackerNews and I don’t always point them out…

The Google Gumby Logo
Today is the 90th birthday of the late Art Clokey, most well known as the inventor of Gumby.
To remember Art Clokey for his work as a animator and director and for creating the incredibly popular Gumby, Google has a special Gumby logo today on most Google properties.

Bug: Google Maps House Numbers Go Missing
There are several reports in the Google Maps Help forums that all of a sudden, the house numbers listed on Google Maps are now gone. This seems to only affect some countries, not the U.S. and others but countries like Austria, Germany…

Google Author Attribute Now Live For Many Sites
Many webmasters, like me, added the authorship rich snippet code to their sites within a week of Google announcing it. Since then, many have complained that the rich snippet didn’t show in the search results…

Cam Meadows & Brett Crosby At Google
HangoutParty.com’s Cam Meadows paid a visit to Google and Brett Crosby of Google spotted him there and took a picture and posted it on Google +. Who is Cam Meadows? He is one of the founders of Hang.

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Did Google change the way related links work?, WebmasterWorld
How I Found 400 Qualified Link Prospects In Eight Minutes, Sphinn
How to Optimize 7 Popular Social Media Profiles for SEO, Sphinn
Legality of Automated Outreach for SEO, Sphinn
Offensive bolded results, Google Web Search Help
Twitter’s t.co URL Wrapper Will Eventually Handle All Links, WebmasterWorld
yahoo serps – temporary boost in traffic, WebmasterWorld
Has Panda signaled the end of SEO?, WebmasterWorld