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…

I went on a BuzzFeed diet about a month ago, where I stopped following the site and reading the content there. I should have stuck to it, because I wouldn’t be wasting my time now dissecting one of its stupid, pageview-baiting stories.

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

Nearly a year ago, in April of 2012, Google rolled out its Penguin update. Like all of Google’s search engine algorithms, Penguin was designed to improve search results for online browsers.

Alex Yumashev wrote a blog post about how authorship lead to a drop in traffic from Google to his site.

The Russian search engine Yandex has announced changes to how it presents personalized search results, saying that personalization is now based on what’s happening within a single search session. When the company launched personalized results late last year, it was based primarily on looking..

Google has launched a new nutrition search that provides accurate and up to date information on a wide variety of food and drinks, such as how much protein, carbs, sodium, and other nutritional values are in the product.

America loves TV. Too bad our love affair with it is about to end

This week in search news we posted a poll where I want to know if you were hit by the Penguin 2.0 update…

The Doodle features six Petri dishes in the Google colors. When you click for the animation, you see a hand swapping each dish, and then watch as the bacteria grows in each one. Then you can mouseover to see what was cultured in each Petri dish