Here we go! The major search engines news of the week on one easy accessible page:

• Where Yahoo Leaves Google in the Dust

  When serving financial news and information, for example, Yahoo draws 17.5 times the traffic of Google, according to comScore Media Metrix. (New York Times Aug 22 2009)

• Google Rises to Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon Google Book Search Challenge

  The non-profit Internet Archive group next week plans to announce the Open Book Alliance, a gathering of companies and library associations poised to challenge Google’s settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. (eWeek A

• Remember Cuil? Now It’s a Real-Time Search Engine

  While Cuil has been quiet – a non-story – for months, it has now suddenly reemerged with an array of new features based on bringing real-time news and search results. (Mashable Aug 21 2009)

• Yahoo Sponsored Search Targeted In Phishing Attack

  Yahoo Sponsored Search Marketing tool is the latest target of a phishing campaign attempting to mine login credentials and steal users’ identities. (ChannelWeb Aug 21 2009)

• For Twitter, Sharing Data With Google Would Be Suicide

  The way to make Twitter into a sustainable business is to tap into the economy of intent. (Edo Segal Aug 22 2009)

• Antonio Gulli Leaving Ask.com

  Antonio Gulli, the technology team lead in Ask.com’s European R&D center is leaving Ask.com after serving for four years. (PageTraffic Aug 22 2009)

• Bing’s Conversion Rates are Awesome; Volulme, adCenter, and Agency Relations Not So Much

  It’s clear that marketers want more traffic from Bing, especially if the conversion rate can remain higher. (SE Watch Aug 21 2009)

• Microsoft, Yahoo, & Amazon Will Fight Google Book Settlement

  The settlement stems from a lawsuit that claimed Google’s practice of scanning books and making them available online violated the copyrights of authors and publishers. (SE Land Aug 20 2009)

• Yahoo’s Social Plan: Twitter, Twitter, & More Twitter?

  Is it just me, or does Yahoo have a thing for Twitter? (Matt McGee SE Land Aug 20 2009)

• Google Unmasks Anonymous Blogger

  It’s worth noting that if Google wouldn’t have had the user’s IP address, they couldn’t have shared it – right now, Google says their policy is to keep such addresses for 9 months. (Blogoscoped Aug 20 2009)

• Russia’s Gogul won’t search for Putin

  Gogul (sound familiar?) a new browser project specifically designed for at safe-searching and surfing for children has launched in Russia (TechCrunch Aug 18 2009)

• 20 Free Best Press Release Distribution Sites!

  Press releases not only provide valuable inbound links, but also increases traffic. (PageTraffic Aug 18 2009)

• Google News Now Recrawling & Reindexing Stories For Updates

  Google News had the embarrassing typos forever, even though I updated the story minutes later in my publishing system. (SE Roundtable Aug 18 2009)

• What is Google’s Account of Apple’s Reason for Banning Google Voice?

  We know Google is working on a Google Voice Web app and we know straight from Apple that it will graciously accept a Web app version of Google Voice. (Google Watch Aug 22 2009)

• Bing strikes licensing deal with Wolfram Alpha

  Wolfram Alpha and Bing have reached a licensing deal that allows Bing to present some of the specialized scientific and computational content that Wolfram Alpha generates (CNet Aug 21 2009)

• SEARCH SHOWDOWN: Microsoft’s Plan to Win the Search War

  Recently, I had the chance to chat with members of the Microsoft team and learn more about the challenges they believe they face (Ben Parr Aug 16 2009)

• The Microsoft Plan to Beat Google in Search

  I think Google has won the Web search war and it is now threatening in other “wars” as well. (Beyond Search Aug 22 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 Aug 21 2009)

• Yahoo BOSS Might Be Bigger Than Bing

  Yahoo BOSS, open search APIs which lets developers create their own custom search engine using Yahoo’s algorithms. (TechCrunch Aug 18 2009)

• Google bruises Gallic pride as national library does deal with search giant

  A four-year fight to keep the contents of the country’s national library in French hands ended in defeat yesterday as it was announced that Google would take control of the archive. (Times Aug 19 2009)