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

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

Google News is now using the Googlebot instead of a dedicated crawler to examine web content. While most elements of crawling remain the same, webmasters should be aware of some minor differences

Google has launched version 9.5 of the Google AdWords Editor for both Windows and Mac computers. The latest version streamlines several tasks, grants greater control over experiments, and adds support for location extensions.

If you ask any local SEO what the nature of our industry is like, you’ll get a range of answers from ‘exciting‘ & ‘high-growth’ to ‘ever changing’, ‘full of opportunity’ and ‘challenging’. The local online advertising market has seen strong growth over the last few years and this…

Google is extending its offerings for small, local businesses with the addition of city pages highlighting Google Places pages and Google Offers for San Francisco, CA, and Charlotte, NC. Google also seems to be rolling out a free website program.

There are still several good discussions from last week happening over on our sister site, Sphinn. SEO pricing, fixing broken links for SEO, and the social media time sink were all hot topics among commenters

How does Google justify its real name policy? Well, Google+ was built primarily as an identity service and will be used to help Google build future products, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. ..

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A Google Web Search Help thread has one Google user asking if it is possible to use Google Image search to locate his stolen camera. He said, many cameras add a unique identifier to the images within the image in the exif data…