Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

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Obviously, the big story is Larry Page replacing Eric Schmidt as CEO . That news is so big it even dwarfs Google’s huge Q4 of 2010, in which the company reported $8.44 billion in revenue — a 26 percent increase over 2009 and 17 percent increase over the $7.2 billion earned in Q3 . Click to read the rest of this post..

During Google’s earnings announcement, they also blogged that Google’s current CEO, Eric Schmidt, will be stepping down as the CEO of Google after 10 years. Replacing him will be Google co-founder, Larry Page

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

Google has already commemorated the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address with a cool doodle.

Launched at SXSW in March 2009, FourSquare has grown rapidly along with the popularity of social networking platforms used on mobile devices that share locations with friends. The company took 44 days to go from 5 to 6 million users, many of whom must be my friends on Twitter as I am always seeing the posts of them checking in at some location.

Google just announced Q4 and full year 2010 earnings. They also dropped the bombshell that Larry Page would be taking over as CEO, with Eric Schmidt becoming “executive chairman.” Danny Sullivan has more on that development. In Q4 Google reported revenues of $8.44 billion, 26 percent…

Wow. Just announced, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is stepping down from that position, to become “Executive Chairman,” with Google cofounder Larry Page stepping into the CEO role.

Google just announced a huge change in management. As of April, Eric Schmidt is out as CEO, and co-founder Larry Page will take over his day-to-day duties