Pandia reads the search engine news for you and picks out the gems of the week:

• Google This: 5 Reasons to Switch to Bing

  Hype aside, Bing happens to be a very viable search alternative to Google, and offers several incentives that Google can’t compete with at the moment. (Mashable Sep 19 2009)

• Google News Labels Some Sources As “Blogs”

  The Google News blog announced that they have begun labeling some sites, sites they consider to be a “blog” as blogs in the Google News search results. (SE Land Sep 18 2009)

• Microsoft’s Move to the Cloud Proves a Worthy Opponent for Google Apps

  Microsoft on Thursday began opening the doors of its free web-based version of its Office Suite — called Microsoft Office Web Applications — to select Windows Live SkyDrive users. (MaximumPC Sep 18 2009)

• Google Says Apple Indeed Rejected Their Voice and Latitude Applications

  Apple has maintained that they did not reject the apps. (SE Watch Sep 18 2009)

• Department Of Justice Files Objections To Google Book Search Settlement

  DOJ does want the settlement modified, in particular to protect absent rights holders of “orphan works” and to solve anti-trust concerns. (SE Land Sep 18 2009)

• DoJ Asks Court to Nix Google Book Search Settlement

  The Justice Department, citing anti-trust and copyright concerns, asked a federal court judge late Friday to reject a controversial settlement that would have allowed Google to cut through knotty copyright issues in order to create the library of the futu

• Your Google docs: Soon in search results?

  The change will allow published docs that are linked to from a public Web site to be crawled and indexed, which means they can appear in search results you see on Google.com and other search engines. (cnet Sep 19 2009)

• How Google reCAPTCHA Buy Buoys Google Book Search

  But Google isn’t just trying to fend off spam, it’s buying the startup to improve book scanning for its Google Book Search project. (Google Watch Sep 16 2009)

• Exalead Laboratories

  Phil Bradley: I’ve been playing around with the Exalead Exalabs site for a while, and thought I’d share my discoveries. (Sep 17 2009)

• Introducing music search engine Noiset

  Noiset is a music search engine where you can search for music albums, artist biographies and songs. (Alt Search Engines Sep 18 2009)

• What’s Yahoo’s “Plan B” For Search?

  The Microsoft-Yahoo search deal isn’t a forgone conclusion. In fact, news out yesterday suggests the companies may face serious regulatory hurdles. (SE Land Sep 12 2009)

• Despite Rumors: Yahoo Directory Still Accepting Submissions

  On Friday afternoon, there was this rumor spreading through Twitter that the Yahoo Directory was no longer accepting submissions. (SE Roundtable Sep 14 2009)

• Bing Innovates with Visual Search

  Basically what Bing’s Visual Search does is to present search results arranged into virtual data grouping galleries which can be used to refine user search results. (SE Journal Sep 14 2009)

• Bing Passes 10% Market Share, Nielsen Says

  The latest search engine stats from Nielsen bring good news for Bing, which now has more than 10% market share for the first time in … well, longer than I can remember. (SE Land Sep 14 2009)

• Second Google UFO Logo

  Google is continuing its UFO logo doodles with one showing a crop circle. (Google Blogoscoped Sep 15 2009)

• Read news fast with Google Fast Flip

  Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers. (Google Blog Sep 14 2009)