It has been a quiet week, search engine wise, but there is still a lot of interesting stuff online:

• Google violated iPhone development terms on voice search app

  Google admits to violating the iPhone’s developers’ agreement by using undocumented APIs to create its groundbreaking voice search mobile app. (itWorldCanada Nov 29 2008)

• Microsoft Now Preaching Black Hat SEO Techniques?

  Chilcott, Sr. Product Manager of Microsoft, openly asked the entire webmasters to participate in Link Exchange program (PageTraffic Nov 24 2008)

• Yahoo sells off comparison shopping arm Kelkoo

  The sale, to U.K. company Jamplant, is the first sign since CEO Jerry Yang stepped down last Monday that Yahoo is refocusing. (The Industry Standard Nov 24 2008)

• Jerry Yang’s Entire Memo to His Employees on Stepping Down as CEO

  Yahoo! is to get a new CEO (BoomTown Nov 17 2008)

• Google’s SearchWiki Is Here To Stay: Is This The Death of SEO?

  After a user has selected a handful of listings that they send to the top of their SERP, they have effectively locked out the rest of the listings. (Marketing Pilgrim Nov 26 2008)

• Why Shouldn’t SEOs Obsess Over the Site Command

  The problem is, the site command is not often all that reliable. (SE Roundtable Nov 26 2008)

• Search the Web Through a Vertical Lens

  TechCrunch is using Yahoo! BOSS to develop a technology-flavored Web search engine. (Yahoo! Search Blog Nov 26 2008)

• Update on the AOL-Yahoo Deal: Like Trying to Catch a Falling Knife

  BoomTown: The idea of combining AOL and Yahoo is a daunting one, especially with the current leadership vacuum at the top of Yahoo (Nov 25 2008)

• Why can’t Microsoft make money online?

  Microsoft’s Online Services Business: For the quarter that ended Sept. 30, online revenues grew 15%, to $770 million. But the unit lost nearly half a billion dollars! (Fortune Nov 26 2008)

• Google Enhances Street View!

  Now you don’t have to scroll to the rightmost corner of the map for clicking on “Street view”. A single click at Google’s “pegmen” and putting it up on the map will do the whole job. (PageTraffic Nov 27 2008)

• Live Search Adds Malware Reporting to Webmaster Tools

  Now you can easily see if your pages or pages you are linking to contain malware or not (SE Roundtable Nov 28 2008)

• Baidu’s Search Ad Revenue Drops 10-15% After Paid Ad Scandal

  Chinese internet giant sacks staff over paid for search listings from the Guardian reports Baidu has dropped the ads of four clients after finding out their medical licenses were false. (SE Land Nov 28 2008)

• Google’s Search Shares Increase Upwards in October

  Nielsen reports that Google’s search went up 8.1 percent (to a total of 61.2 percent). comScore’;s findings were similar: Google now has a 63.1 search share (up from 58.5 percent from last year). (SE Roundtable Nov 28 2008)

• Interview: Yahoo’s Larry Cornett on Universal Search

  As with textual search, Universal search will continue to improve amongst the search engines. (Search Engine Guide Nov 28 2008)

• Google kills Lively – what can we learn?

  Google abandons its version of 3D SecondLife (Phil Bradley Nov 20 2008)

• The Online Search Party from Microsoft

  In April Microsoft launched a thing called SearchTogether; which is a way that people can collaborate using a resource that looks remarkably like MSN Messenger (Phil Bradley Nov 24 2008)

• More on IBM’s Cloud Play

  IBM has not been able to stick with a network services business. (Beyond Search Nov 24 2008)

• Perfect Search: New High-Speed Engine

  Perfect Search gives speedy content processing and near zero latency query processing and results display. (Beyond Search Nov 25 2008)

• Microsoft meets its match in Google: Chrome to go retail

  Google plans to take its open-source Chrome browser retail through OEM deals with computer manufacturers (CNet Nov 24 2008)

• Lycos Europe To Shut Down After Failing To Find Buyer

  After putting itself on the auction block in April, Lycos Europe has finally conceded that no one wants to buy the ailing portal. (paidContent Nov 26 2008)

• More Google Cost Cutting

  Google cutting down on festivities and contractors (Beyond Search Nov 25 2008)

• Alexa Search: The Gone-Goose Flock Grows

  Amazon may be pulling the plug on Alexa Web Search (Beyond Search Nov 29 2008)

• OpThink Search Engine for Reviews and Opinions

  The OpThink.com search engine is designed to facilitate the use of finding reviews and user opinions. (AltSearchEngines Nov 27 2008)

• wectar – most popular bookmarks on delicious aggregator

  It lists the most popular bookmarks in delicious over specific time periods (Phil Bradley Nov 27 2008)