Here are some of the search engine news articles we have found interesting this week.

(We apologize for the lack of new Pandia articles. The Pandia team has been out travelling.)

• Are Bing Users Twice As Likely To Click On An Ad Than Google Users?

  Yes, according to a study by search-advertising network Chitika (TechCrunch July 24 2009)

• Yahoo’s New Home Page Trumps My Yahoo, iGoogle Pages in Simplicity

  By mousing over the Facebook selection under My Favorites, users will get a pop-out of their accounts without having to even click into the app. (Google Watch July 21 2009)

• Time for a Yahoo Microsoft Search Partnership

  Yahoo and Microsoft merger rumors are heating up again as Yahoo board members were reportedly at the table again yesterday, discussing a partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft’s Bing Search Technology. (SE Journal July 24 2009)

• Five More Search Tools You May Not Know … But Should

  Have you ever needed to see search results from a different country, or in a different language? (Search Engine Land July 21 2009)

• Yahoo launches new interactive homepage

  As a user you can customize the page to your wishes with (both from Yahoo and form third parties) apps and widgets. (Search Cowboys July 21 2009)

• Report: ChaCha Voice Search Beats Google, Yahoo/Vlingo In Accuracy, Reliability

  The study was conducted by Albright Communications/MSearchGroove in January of this year. (SE Land July 21 2009)

• Cuil wants to try social media search

  By including results from social networks Cuil wants to stand out. (SearchCowboys July 23 2009)

• Google Increases Lobbying Spend

  Google spent $950,000 lobbying lawmakers, regulators and the White House (SE Land July 23 2009)

• Searchcowboys show starts August 20th

  European search engine coverage site to launch podcast (July 23 2009)

• Explore Points of Interest with Yahoo! Image Search

  Let’s say you are planning your first trip to Rome. The new travel image refiner shows categories for popular destinations such as the Colosseum, Pantheon, and Trevi Fountain. (Yahoo Search Blog July 24 2009)

• Twitter’s Internal Strategy Laid Bare: To Be “The Pulse Of The Planet”

  These notes include never-before revealed discussions between Twitter and Google, Microsoft, and others, as well as details of product planning, company goals, employee retention, and new proposed terms of service and APIs. (TechCrunch July 16 2009)

• Bing: It’s The Relevancy, Stupid

  J.P. Morgan study suggests it’s the relevancy that matters for search engine success, not design (SE Land July 15 2009)

• ComScore Reports Slight Bounce — But No Bang — For Bing

  In its first month on the market, Microsoft’s new search engine Bing nibbled at Yahoo’s slice of the search market (WS Journal July 15 2009)

• BingTweets Integrates Twitter and Bing Search, Literally

  BingTweets sort of integrates Twitter search and Bing’s own web search interface. (SE Journal July 14 2009)

• Report: Google Has Nothing To Fear From Bing Itself

  J.P. Morgan report: Of 763 people (ages 18 and up) surveyed, roughly 98% will not be making Bing their primary search engine. (SE Land July 14 2009)

• Microsoft closing YouTube rival

  Microsoft is closing Soapbox, its onetime video-sharing rival to Google’s YouTube (cnet July 21 2009)

• Search beyond Twitter conversations with Topsy

  Want to know what people are talking about, sending to other people, blogging, submitting to social bookmarking sites? (About.com July 27 2009)

• Should You Still Use Nofollow?

  Google discards the link juice of nofollow links. (SEWatch July 14 2009)

• How to launch a new search engine – hotelicopter.

  Hotelicopter chief tells the story of a successful April 1st viral marketing campaign (AltSearchEngines July 22 2009)

• Another Real-Time Search Engine — Itpints

  I did a search for dinner and was most impressed with the fact that the search results weren’t just Twitter. (ResearchBuzz July 23 2009)

• Travel search engine Voyij has new “Deal Alerts”

  The first full featured, customizable deal alert system that notifies you of the best travel sales based on exactly what you want (AltSearchEngines July 23 2009)

• Lifting the hood on the Bing Travel Price Predictor

  The Price Predictor helps you answer the key question of when’s the right time to book your airline tickets. (Bing Community July 23 2009)

• The Google Books settlement and privacy: frequently asked questions

  Google will never sell personal information about their users. (Inside Google Books July 23 2009)

• How to search blogs for what you want

  If you’re looking for what people are saying on a specific topic, blogs are the perfect solution. (About.com July 24 2009)

• Check out the Binging Jingle contest

  There is still time to enter, so practice your pitch, grab a camera, and make a Bing Jingle. It might just win you a $500 gift cheque (Bing Community July 24 2009)

• Another one bites the dust – Goodbye Searchme

  Searchme plans to lay off 35 of its 45 employees, take its site offline and refocus its technology in the broadband TV market (AltSearchEngines July 24 2009)

• XAPHOO Search Engine

  It does what it should do, but in all honesty I can’t find anything particularly exciting about it. (P Bradley July 18 2009)

• Microsoft Destabilized by Google

  Google realized that open source could bleed Microsoft’s attention and revenue. (Beyond Search July 26 2009)

• Is the party over for Microsoft?

  Everyone knew the day would come when the fortunes of Microsoft Corp. would reverse. (MarketWatch July 24 2009)