It’s Sunday and Pandia gives you the most important search engine news headlines of the week.

• Google Rules Mobile Search — for Now, Report Says

  Popular search engine Google not only dominates the web game but has taken to lead the mobile search domain globally as well, a report from Web browser company Opera said recently. (PCWorld June 27 2009)

• Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. (Wired June 22 2009)

• More real-time search startups join the fray

  Real-time search allows users to find out what’s happening now on any topic, unlike traditional search engines, which bring up the most authoritative results over time as judged by page links. (The Industy Standard June 26 2009)

• Study Suggests People Prefer Bing’s Design To Google’s, But Still Won’t Switch

  Prior to the test, all the subjects used Google as their main search engine. Following the test, 4 out of the 12, or one third, said that overall they preferred Bing. (TechCrunch June 25 2009)

• Can Someone Please Tell Us How You Determine What’s A ‘Legal’ Search Engine From An ‘Illegal’ One?

  I’ve had a lot of trouble with courts around the globe pinning blame on search engines for what they find, using a questionable interpretation of the law for “contributory” infringement or “inducing” infringement. (techdirt June 26 2009)

• Dump Google? Bing is more user-friendly

  Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, has a better design than Google, a usability study from Catalyst Group has found. (ComputerWeekly June 26 2009)

• How to Turn Your PowerPoint Presentation into a Video for More Exposure

  You have some great video content to promote and generate additional leads! (SE Journal June 26 2009)

• Google News Now with New Author Search Feature!

  Use advanced search option on Google News. (PageTraffic June 24 2009)

• Bing Gains Major Paid Search Share in Two Weeks

  According to Efficient Frontier’s latest analysis, Bing’s share of paid clicks increased to 13% from 8% prior to its launch two weeks ago. (SE Journal June 24 2009)

• Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! – Update

  Kayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing’s new travel search engine looks so much like its own that it’s confusing Kayak users. (Wired June 24 2009)

• Moving up in natural search

  The Google Grants blog offers a course in search engine optimization (June 24 2009)

• China Blocks Google, YouTube This Week, Could It Become Permanent

  Given China has its own internal search engines and the government has strict control, Google has acknowledged it is censoring search results in the country. (SE Watch June 27 2009)

• Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search

  The rush of traffic was so severe that Google initially thought it was under attack. (SE Land June 27 2009)

• You Know You Work In Search When You…

  …have more logins than you do pairs of socks. Chelsea Blacker’s Top 40 (Marketing Pilgrim June 26 2009)

• 9 SEO Tips for Attractive Search Engine Friendly Web Design

  Creating a website design that is appealing, while also search engine friendly, is one of the hardest parts about SEO web design. (Marketing Pilgrim June 26 2009)

• Once Touted As A Google Killer, Cuil May Deal With Search King

  Cuil is talking to Google about a text ad deal (Yahoo Finance June 23 2009)

• Is Bing a viable competitor to Google – a 1st month review

  Since the 10.8 percent UK peak on the 3rd, traffic to Bing has declined quite considerably (SearchCowboys June 23 2009)

• Google hands Bing a pagerank 9

  The pagerank lift for Bing is remarkable. Not only is the leap from a PR2 to a PR9 pretty high, it’s also remarkable that a site which might be Googles biggest competitor in the next coming years gets such a high PR from their main rivals. (SearchCowboys

• Exclusive: Yahoo Working on Major Brand Overhaul (Pretty Please, No More Yodeling!)

  The new branding of Yahoo, said several people close to the situation, might be built around the latest relaunch of its main homepage design. (BoomTown June 24 2009)

• Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

  The inclusion of Wikipedia articles among the thousands of publications used by Google News began as an experiment that was seen by a small percentage of users (NYT June 21 2009)

• Want Your Google News To Show Up in Google Finance?

  You need to include the full ticker name, prefixed by the name of its stock exchange. (SE Roundtable June 2009)

• Book Seer suggests books to read.

  Nice resource – simple, easy and quick to use. Great to have easy to hand at the public library enquiry desk when the question is asked. (P Bradley June 23 2009)