It is summer on the Northern Hemisphere and the Americans that can afford to do so are on holiday. Hence no huge “Bing replaces Yahoo!” headlines this week.

But there are some interesting search engine news articles around.

• Google News Archive Now Four Times As Large

  Less than a year ago, Google launched a digitization project to archive as old newspapers. Google has announced they have quadrupled the amount of articles in the Google News Archive. (SE Land Aug 4 2009)

• Yahoo Makes Delicious.com Cool Again

  Yahoo has announced a series of upgrades that makes Delicious — the granddaddy of social bookmarking — more relevant and useful than it’s been in years. (SE Land Aug 4 2009)

• Yahoo: Pay No Attention to the 10 Year Search Deal: Look at What’s New on Delicious!

  No, they want to focus us on their new SERP and their new Delicious search tools and fresh bookmarks. (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 5 2009)

• Google: Come See The Softer Side Of Street View

  Perhaps tired of all the legal wrangling and even physical altercations over its Street View program, Google has launched a new Street View web site. (SE Land Aug 4 2009)

• Flickr Updates Design of Search Results

  Yahoo! owned Flickr has given a makeover to its search results page. Now, instead of scrolling through a single stream of images, you see a grid. (SEW Aug 5 2009)

• Emerging Details: Yahoo May Kill Microsoft Deal if it Fails to Match Google

  Did you know that if the revenue per search, under a Microsoft/Yahoo partnership, fails to match Google’s estimated revenue, Yahoo can kill the deal? (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 5 2009)

• Think Twice Before Changing Your Site URL Structure

  There is no one definitive way to treat “dropped” URLs, e.g. those URLs that stop being valid after you change the URL structure. (SE Journal Aug 5 2009)

• Dig Deeper Into Airfares with Bing’s Flexible Travel Search Tools

  Bing has some pretty cool travel search tools to help you get a great deal. (SE Watch Aug 5 2009)

• Marissa Mayer On iGoogle’s New “Social Gadgets”

  This morning Google is rolling out a program in Australia enabling developers to create “social gadgets” that permit sharing, collaboration and groups on the iGoogle homepage. (SE Land Aug 6 2009)

• Google Acquires Video Compression Company, On2 Technologies

  Recently, Google has signed a deal to acquire On2 Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of video compression technology. (PageTraffic Aug 6 2009)

• Video Search Is Searching For Porn Too Easy With Bing?

  Perhaps the most remarked upon feature is the mouse hover over a thumbnail of a video and Bing will play 30 seconds of the clip with sound. (SE Land Aug 6 2009)

• Google Sponsored Ads Get Closer to Organic Results in SERPs

  According to the Periscopix blog, Google may be testing a new layout of its SERPs with the paid search which is used to be located at the far right end of the SERPs now closer to the organic search results. (SE Journal Aug 6 2009)

• How Search Engines May Mine SEO Forums to Find Web Spam

  Post your URL in an SEO forum, and get labeled as a Web Spammer? Maybe. (SEO by the Sea Aug 6 2009)

• Does Google Know What Websites You Own

  One of the biggest questions is, since google is a registrar do they have access to private registry information. (Graywolf Aug 7 2009)

• Google and Games

  Stephen E. Arnold on Google as a platform for online games (Beyond Search July 31 2009)

• New Search Engine Starting with Y

  For me Yebol was less about the search results and more about the semantic and related information. (ResearchBuzz Aug 4 2009)

• Google Brand Worth $100B; Microsoft Brand No. 2 at $76B

  Millward Brown Optimor has just published its list of its 100 most valuable global brands for 2009. (Google Watch Aug 6 2009)

• Search Engine for Finding Legal Feature-Length Movies Online

  Speedcine has listing of roughly 13,000 feature-length movies that are available legally online (ResearchBuzz Aug 6 2009)

• What if Google had to Design for Google? a little fun…

  Uptake Vacations Blog has a hilarious take on what Google would look like if it was optimized for Google.

Digg Videos and Digg co-founder Kevin Rose has made an interview with Marissa Mayer of Google.

Digg Dialogg with Google’s Marissa Mayer from Digg Videos on Vimeo.