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. From Search Engine Land: Do Your 2012 Resolutions Include Increasing Conversion Rates

A Google Maps Help thread has confirmed reports of a bug with Google Maps label in the Catalan language. Daniel from the Google Maps team confirmed the issue 11 days ago saying: We’ve gotten a number of posts about the Catalan labels appearing in the wrong language on Google Maps…

Posted by Dr. Pete With the end of 2011 in sight, I thought it would be a nice time to reflect on the good old days. Remember the good old days?

With Apple planning to launch the highly anticipated iPad 3 as early as February of 2012, Google appears to be planning on launching a competing device in the near future.  In a recent interview with an Italian newspaper, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt said; “In the next six months, we plan to market a tablet of Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

That’s a trick question. Of course the answer should always be yes.

New to rich snippets? If so this is a fantastic collection of videos to watch. The topics covered include: Introduction to rich snippets Types of rich snippets Rich snippets and product search Snippets and reviews Recipe markup Snippets and events Apps snippets Notifying Google Rich snippets troubleshooting I also recommend you read a post by Follow SEJ on Twitter @sejournal

There are dozens of complaints in the Google Web Search Help forum with users saying Google’s SMS search feature isn’t working properly. I personally conducted some tests by sending a text message to 466453 with my query and it responded okay. But many are still reporting issues…

With the holiday season winding down and 2012 just around the corner, it’s time to take a deep breath and get ready to plunge into the new year.

TechCrunch reports a company named buySafe is suing Google over their Trusted Stores program, which Google launched in October.