Here are some interesting headlines from this week’s search engine reading:

• More questions than answers on Google Books

  A young man from the University of California at Berkeley’s School of Information asked Google’s Clancy what kind of message was sent when Google decided to “copy first and answer questions later.” (CNET Aug 29 2009)

• Bundling Won’t Help Microsoft Bing Versus Google

  Microsoft Bing is not gaining significant traction. (Google Watch Aug 29 2009)

• Translate documents: sharing across languages and generations

  You can now automatically translate documents into 42 different languages in Google Docs. (Google Docs Blog Aug 27 2009)

• Collecta for realtime search

  It pulls content from blogs, blog comments, Twitter, Jaiku, Indentica, Flickr, TwitPic, yFrog and video from YouTube and Ustream. (Phil Bradley Aug 27 2009)

• Download Over a Million Public Domain Books from Google Books in the Open EPUB Format

  EPUB is a lightweight text-based digital book format that allows the text to automatically conform (or “reflow”) to these smaller screens. (Inside Google Books Aug 26 2009)

• Whozat? The People Search Engine

  The search results were not bad, to be fair. There’s a summary tag, images, related queries, an opportunity (at last!) to refine by place, gender and age (Phil Bradley Aug 25 2009)

• TwitSeeker: An Alternative Way to Find Twitter Users “Twits”

  TwitSeeker allows you to search Twitter users based on their “Twits” or profile. Currently TwitSeeker contains over 1.2 million twitter users in their database (Alt Search Engines Aug 24 2009)

• Microsoft’s secret ’screw Google’ meetings in D.C.

  The meetings are part of an ongoing campaign by Microsoft (MSFT), other Google (GOOG) opponents, and hired third parties to discredit the Web search leader (Daily Finance Aug 28 2009)

• A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

  The image search market is big. Here are some tips on ranking well in Bing image search (Bing Search Blog Aug 27 2009)

• Local Listings Come to Google Street View

  The initial results look much the same, with the link for Street View—but now, when you go into Street View the local business listings and markers appear on the street-level photographs. (Marketing Pilgrim Aug 28 2009)

• Google Book Search Offers Public Domain Books in EPUB Format

  EPUB is a free, open-source standard supported by some e-readers. (SE Watch Aug 27 2009)

• BT/Yahoo Portal Now Powered By … Not Yahoo, Not Bing, Google!

  You would guess that if Yahoo would replace their own search technology, it would be in exchange for Bing, in light of the recent news about the Bing & Yahoo deal. (SE Land Aug 27 2009)

• Google Loving Keywords in URLs Now?

  A WebmasterWorld thread has new discussion around how important it is to have keywords in the URL. (SE Roundtable Aug 27 2009)

• Is That The Loch Ness Monster? On Google Earth?

  Jason Cooke of Nottingham, England, thinks he spotted the monster on Google Earth (SE Land Aug 26 2009)

• Google Makes its Maps More Useful for Daily Road Warriors

  Adds live traffic conditions in major arterial roads in U.S. cities. (SE Journal Aug 26 2009)

• Bing Continues With Fake Referrers: What Part Of Stop Don’t They Understand?

  For over two years now, Microsoft’s search engine has been generating fake information that can make site owners think they’re getting strange search traffic (SE Land Aug 26 2009)

• Six new European languages added to Google Translate

  Amongst the ten newly added languages are six European languages: Albanian, Belarusian, Icelandic, Irish, Macedonian, and Welsh. (Search Cowboys Aug 26 2009)

• 10 Tips For Creating a Brilliant Landing Page

  Building a great landing page should be on top of your priority list if you want your website visitors transformed into customers. (SitePro news Aug 26 2009)

• The Curious Case Of Google’s Bizarre UK Search Results

  It is not just big brands that dominate search results—.com sites are taking over the results in the UK (SE Land Aug 25 2009)

• Yahoo’s Testing a New Search Interface…Bing’s Interface Actually

  Basically, this is nothing more than Yahoo preparing its users for a switch to Bing–and its three column search design. (Andy Beal Aug 25 2009)

• Yahoo to Acquire Arab Site Maktoob

  This is the first time that Yahoo is acquiring an online property in a localized language. (SE Journal Aug 25 2009)

• Google again testing breadcrumbs in SERPS

  Breadcrumbs are usually seen on websites helping the visitor find their way on the site itself. (Search Cowboys Sug 25 2009)

• Europeans opposing to book settlement deal

  Last week Google surprisingly struck a deal with the French Library Association allowing them to digitize 13 million books in the Paris Library. (Search Cowboys Aug 25 2009)

• 10 Common SEO Mistakes

  Sometimes a senior marketing manager insists on using Flash for the whole site. (SE Watch Aug 25 2009)

• Search Ranking Factors Shows How Little SEO Has Changed

  72 search engine optimizers from around the world have contributed to SEOmoz’s latest Search Engine Ranking Factors report, a study that offers valuable insight into how SEO works in 2009 (SE Land Aug 24 2009)