Here are some interesting headlines from the world of search engines:

• Google’s Got the Edge in Search Loyalty: Report

  Search market leader Google holds greater loyalty among its users, who conduct more searches a month than those on Yahoo and Microsoft (Reuters Aug 14 2009)

• How to fix your nofollow screwup

  Still, it makes sense that if you remove a LOT of internalized nofollows all at once, you’ll see a sudden shift in the way a search engine values your Web content. (SEO Theory Aug 14 2009)

• Microsoft / Yahoo Union Not Likely to Raise Real EC Concerns

  The impact on the competitive environment in Europe posed by this partnership will be nominal at best. (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 14 2009)

• Roundtable Covers 30 Sessions at SES San Jose 2009

  The SES San Jose conference is now complete. Roundtable has the coverage. (SE Roundtable Aug 14)

• Now YouTube goes more search-like

  It’s not a complete redesign by YouTube, its just the search bar which has become a more prominent item of the homepage. (Search Cowboys Aug 13 2009)

• Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat

  Coverage of the Social Media: White Hat vs. Black Hat from the SES San Jose 2009 conference. (SE Roundtable Aug 12 2009)

• Bing gets more paid clicks

  According to Efficient Frontier, Microsoft’s paid click share in the the first week of August has increased by 44% from what it was in June. (SE Journal Aug 12 2009)

• Facebook Lite Gets Premature Introduction

  It is a completely stripped-down version of the Facebook platform. From what we can tell, it is almost like a Twitterstream (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 12 2009)

• Time to Say Bye-Bye to Google Knol?

  It’s been a little over a year since Google launched Google Knol. Now it appears the service may not make it to its 2nd birthday. (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 11 2009)

• Delicious Founder Joshua Schachter Regrets Yahoo! Sale, Launches Twitter Tool

  “I wish I had not sold it to them. The cash and freedom do not even come close; I would rather work on a big, popular product.” (SE Watch Aug 11 2009)

• New tools for Google Services for Websites

  Google Webmaster Central: Web Elements allows your customers to enhance their websites with the ease of cut-and-paste. (Aug 11 2009)

• Facebook Search Improved for Everyone

  You now will be able to search the last 30 days of your News Feed for status updates, photos, links, videos and notes being shared by your friends and the Facebook Pages of which you’re a fan. (Facebook Aug 10 2009)

• 5 Microblogging Sites That Aren’t Twitter

  I’m going to take you through 5 different micro-blogging platforms, pointing out the good, bad, and sometimes ugly. (Michael Gray Aug 11 2009)

• Google Sorry for Rewriting History, Changing Borders

  Google Earth underwent a routine update this week. As part of that update, it renamed areas of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh—in Chinese. (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 10 2009)

• Google Reader Now Lets You Launch Content to Twitter, Facebook, Digg

  You’ll find this capability in the “Send To” feature under the settings page in Reader. (Google Watch Aug 13 2009)

• Find stats for every country with OFFSTATS

  This amazing resource is from the University of Auckland Library, and provides access to free statistics from official sources on the Web for every country in the world (About.com Aug 12 2009)

• Facebook Cranks Out New Search Offerings

  Facebook announced this week the rollout of its new search engine, the form for which is available on the upper right of any Facebook page. (Researchbuzz Aug 11 2009)

• MP3 Search Engine MusicBiatch

  MusicBiatch is a music search engine designed for locating audio files in various file sharing and uploading sites. (AltSearchEngines Aug 11 2009)

• Google Caffeine: A Detailed Test of the New Google

  New Google is FAST: It often doubled the speed of Google classic. (Mashable Aug 10 2009)

• Google Caffeine Test Suggests Too Much Emphasis on Real-Time Indexing

  Google may have dialed up too much focus on Twitter in their test search engine algorithm (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 11 2009)

• Caffeine update and what it means for SEO

  This final factor is probably based on the speed of re-spidering old pages rather than indexing new pages (blogstorm Aug 11 2009)

• Help test some next-generation infrastructure

  For the last several months, a large team of Googlers has been working on a secret project: a next-generation architecture for Google’s web search. (Google Webmaster Central Aug 10 2009)

• More info on the Google Caffeine Update

  If you search on http://www2.sandbox.google.com you can get a preview of how the search results will change over the next few weeks and months. (Matt Cutts Aug 10 2009)

• Facebook Buys FriendFeed After Failing to Acquire Twitter

  Facebook aims to plug its real-time content gap by buying FriendFeed, a social network aggregator that lets users create custom feeds of content from Facebook, Digg, YouTube and other services. (eWeek.com Aug 10 2009)

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