Yahoo! has a new boss, and her name is Carol Bartz. She is the former chief executive of software company Autodesk Inc.

“She is admired in the Valley as well as on Wall Street for her deep management expertise, strong customer orientation, excellent people skills, and firm understanding of the challenges facing our industry,” Roy Bostock, Chairman of the Yahoo Board says.

These are skills that can come in handy when leading a struggling company. One of her first jobs will be to consider Microsoft’s wish to buy Yahoo’s search technology. Her guts reportedly tells her not to do that. Follow your gut, Carol!

Here are more search engine news from around the web:

• A new Google Sitemap Generator for your website

  Our new open-source Google Sitemap Generator finds new and modified URLs based on your webserver’s traffic, its log files, or the files found on the server. (Google Webmaster Central Jan 13 2009)

• Give Google feedback on noresults pages

  Matt Cutts of Google declares war on no result review sites (Jan 13 2009)

• Rise In Local Search- Thanks To Technology!

  In addition to conducting manual Google searches through Google Search application, iPhone users can now conduct searches using Voice-Based search (PageTraffic Blog Jan 15 2009)

• Google Shuts Down Stale Products, Cuts 100 Jobs

  Google has also announced that it is also ending all its contract with external contractors and vendors providing recruiting services for Google (SE Journal Jan 14 2009)

• Google Cutting More than Jobs–Shuttering Five Products

  Mobile social network Dodgeball.com and The Mashup Editor go down (Marketing Pilgrim Jan 16 2009)

• Yahoo Shuts Down Contextual Network Ads- Content Match in UK!

  Content Match is Yahoo’s contextual network ads that allow Yahoo Publisher Network publishers to display Yahoo ads on their sites. (PageTraffic Jan 15 2009)

• Yahoo CEO’s Salary: $1M if She Sucks, $19M if She Kicks Butt!

  I’d want at least $10 million on the table before I’d consider putting my good name alongside that mess. (Andy Beal Jan 16 2009)

• Why Don’t Google and Yahoo Offer Twitter Search?

  TweetNews was created by Vik Singh, a Yahoo programmer who works on the BOSS team. Why not just build this as Yahoo product itself? (SE Land Jan 16 2009)

• News on your doorstep — no need to look in the bushes!

  Now you can have your news delivered to your inbox every day, twice a day, or just once a week (Live Search Blog Jan 16 2009)

• Lycos To Shutter Lycos Mail, Tripod On February 15

  Troubled Internet company Lycos is shutting down its email service and website creation and hosting service Tripod (TC Jan 18 2009)

• Pioneering research shows Google Generation is a myth

  A new study overturns the common assumption that the Google Generation - youngsters born or brought up in the Internet age - is the most web-literate. (British Library Jan 16 2009)

• 2009 List of Video Search Engines & Video Search Sites

  This is a list of internet video search engines and video search sites. (ReelSEO Jan 14 2009)

• Search for Scientific Books with Dandelon

  Dandelon.com is a public search engine for scientific books and articles. (AltSearchEninges Jan 13 2009)

• Nexplore: Another Google Challenger

  A visually engaging user friendly, interactive multi-media interface makes navigation effortless and drill down obsolete. (Beyond Search Jan 14 2009)

• Information Trapping and Twitter

  ResearchBuzz is back and Tara takes a look at Twitter Search (Jan 5 2009)

• Turning Down Uploads at Google Video

  Google will discontinue support for uploads to Google Video, but you can use Google’s YouTube instead (Google Video Blog Jan 14 2009)

• Stopping development on Google Notebook

  Google plans to stop active development on Google Notebook. (Offical Google Notebook Blog Jan 14 2009)

• Google Cost Cutting

  Beyond Search has learned that Google is trimming the sails of some weak sister services; to wit: Google Video, Google Catalog Search, Google Notebook, Google Mashup Editor, and at long last the deflated Dodgeball. (Jan 14 2009)

• Google Image Ripper makes image search even easier

  This site basically sifts through results from a google query and displays images using a direct link. (Google Tutor Jan 15 2009)

• Wall Street Journal on Microsoft’s failure to capture search

  The premise of the Wall Street Journal article is that Microsoft had chances to do what Google is doing; to wit: sell ads, build search traffic, and buy Overture.com, among other missteps. (Beyond Search Jan 16 2009)

• Icerocket, the Big Buzz and Google’s failure

  Phil Bradley: Icerocket is one of those really useful search engines that most people don’t know about. (Jan 17 2009)

• Cognition Technologies: Gospels Demo Available

  Biblical texts are difficult to parse and tag. The easiest content to process is tidy, scientific, technical, and medical content chock full of jargon. (Beyond Search Jan 18 2009)

• 100,000th knol published

  The Google Blog announces that Google’s article publishing site is growing rapidly (Jan 16 2009)

Matt Cutts of Google has made a video on blight, i.e. on how to prevent people from spamming your site to get links. Think comment spam, people creating landing pages on your site, hacking etc: