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:

Is It Safer To Spam Google Search During The Holidays & New Years?

If you follow Google like I do, you’d notice that it is like a ghost town there. Almost everyone is off, on vacation, spending time with family and friends. If you send an email to a Googler, it is almost guaranteed you’d get a vacation response…

Google Tests New Mobile Search Results Interface?

Looks like Google is testing yet another Google user interface for the mobile search results. Tejas Thakkar posted a screen shot of the test on Twitter showing search snippets showing the URL (or breadcrumb) at the top, then the title/headline, followed by the snippet/description…

The Google Throttle: Does Google Limit Traffic To Your Web Site?

The topic of Google throttling traffic to a web site has been around since 2008 or earlier…

John Mueller Of Google Helping Webmasters On Christmas Day Again

Some people give charity, some people go to a soup kitchen, some people spend more time with family as a Christmas day tradition. Well…

Santa At Google
Here is a photo of Santa visiting Google. Well, someone dressed up at Santa, at the Google office, is taking a picture with Google’s Nupur Dave. She is a Technical Program Manager, Google For Work in

Other Great Search Forum Threads:

Twitter Fixes Android App Which Showed Inflated Stats in Video Ad Campaigns, WebmasterWorld
Twitter shares fall 10pct after bosses depart, WebmasterWorld
Update to desktop notifications bell, YouTube Help
rankbrain doesn’t work on goat related queries 🙄, Gary Illyes on Twitter
What a night! Santa’s taking some well earned rest. See you next year! #Track…, Google+ – Google Maps