We read the most important search engine industry blogs and sites for you. Here are this week’s headlines from the world of search engines.

• Google Music Search: 3 Major Implications for the Music Business

  Googlers already search for songs, artists, and lyrics en masse, but the immediate click-to-listen and buy options that Google now provides could very well make them less likely to take the extra step back over to iTunes. (Mashable Nov 7 2009)

• Marissa Mayer Chosen As A Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year

  Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article (TechCrunch Nov 6 2009)

• Microsoft Sites Captures Largest Share of Time Spent Online Worldwide

  Facebook and YouTube Combined Account for Nearly 10 Percent of Time Spent Online Globally (ComScore Nov 6 2009)

• Going Down The Long Tail of Local Search

  Because so many searches are now localized a long tail of local phrases are emerging within major metropolitan areas. (SE Guide Nov 5 2009)

• Explore Music Albums and Songs with Yahoo! Video Search

  Yahoo Search Blog: We have hooked into the “Web of Things” to intelligently extract the most popular albums and songs for artist or band queries. (Nov 5 2009)

• Google NEAR Operator & Exclude Faces on Image Search

  There are two threads at Google Web Search Help where there are two search suggestions that Google has listened to as a possible addition to Google’s advanced search. (SE Roundtable Nov 5 2009)

• Google Makes it Easier to Add Custom Section to Google News

  Now, you can create your own topical news streams based on keywords that you would normally use if you want to get the latest news on a particular topic. (SE Journal Nov 4 2009)

• Google Friend Connect Gets Personal

  In addition to allowing members of your site to send each other private messages, now Google is bringing its personalization home to your site with Friend Connect. (Marketing Pilgrim Nov 4 2009)

• How Google & Yahoo Make Money Off A Twitter Typo Domain

  Google has a program known as AdSense For Domains, previously known as DomainPark. Got a tasty domain but no content for it? AdSense For Domains will put lucrative ads up on it (SE Land Nov 5 2009)

• Experimenting with Digg Trends

  Digg Trends will surface certain highly active stories as they’re trending to Digg’s homepage so people can vote on whether or not they feel the story actually belongs there. (Digg Blog Nov 4 2009)

• Bing & Google Maps Update Map Imagery

  The Bing blog announced an additional 9,460 square kilometers of imagery added to Bing Maps. (SE Land Nov 4 2009)

• Google Celebrates Anniversaries For Sesame Street, Wallace & Gromit & Many Others

  It is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and Google made a Doodle for it (SE Roundtable Nov 4 2009)

• Microsoft launches MSN Music download service

  msn-music-hits-open-beta MSN Music hits open beta Microsoft has revealed that it has finally opened up the doors of its long-awaited music download service - MSN Music. (TechRadar Nov 3 2009)

• MSN Introduces Dramatically Improved Redesign, Portal Drives Nearly 50% Of Bing Queries

  The redesign makes video more central, incorporates Facebook and Twitter, creates a dedicated new local area and emphasizes search. (SE Land Nov 4 2009)

• Research & Build Links with Followtopia Search Engine

  Backlink checker that generates a list of most powerful pages and shows if “Nofollow” attribute has been applied to the external links on the page (SE Journal Nov 3 2009)

• Cutting back on your long list of passwords

  Google Blog on hybrid onboarding: sites sharing registration IDs and passwords

• Turkish government claims Google owes €32 million in taxes

  The Turkish government claims it is entitled to additional taxes because of the fact Google operates its online advertising in the country and even boasts offices and a registered subsidiary there while bills and payments originate from Ireland. (TechCrunch)

• Google Adds “Page Preview” To Search Options

  If you go to Google, search on something and click on “show options,” you can then look towards the button on the left hand side and click on “page previews.” (SE Land Nov 3 2009)

• Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution

  Using libary and information science graduates to edit the Open Directory (SE Land Nov 3 2009)

• Google Related Links (Again)

  Google Related Links (II) shows further links from a given domain which are deemed relevant to a particular page the widget is embedded on. (Google Blogoscoped Nov 3 2009)

• Google launches local news in France

  After the US, the UK, India, Canada and Germany Google has launched their local news service in France. (Search Cowboys Nov 3 2009)

• Google Search by voice travels the world, finds Nokia, learns Chinese

  Google search by voice is available for Nokia S60 phones, and now understands Mandarin Chinese (Google Blog Nov 2 2009)

• Illegal downloads drive online music sales

  New survey suggests downloaders end up spending more in the end (techradar Nov 1 2009)

• Google News Ranking Algorithm

  The USPTO document that caught my interest was US20090276429, Systems and Methods for Improving the Ranking of News Articles.” Like most Google patent documents, the claims are interesting. (Beyond Search Nov 8 2009)

• Google Sidewiki Under Fire from Reframe It

  Today I posted this piece about Web annotation startup Reframe It, which believes Google’s Sidewiki looks and feels a little too much like its own Web annotation service. (Google Watch Nov 6 2009)

• Microsoft Responds to Gmail

  Microsoft and Google are seeking customers that want to outsource the management of e-mail systems. (Beyond Search Nov 6 2009)

• OneRiot Confirms They’re Building Yahoo’s Real Time Search Engine

  OneRiot results will appear in the main Yahoo search results page for certain queries (TechCrunch Nov 3 2009)

• Microsoft questions Google Apps’ momentum, touts 1M online business suite customers

  Google said last month that it now had 20 million active users for its Google Apps at 2 million companies. (Computerworld Nov 2 2009)

• MSN and Bing - a Match Made in Redmond

  MSN gets a new home page (Bing Community Nov 3 2009)

• Would Google Be Evil for Buying The New York Times?

  Bloggers and reporters are reviewing Ken Auletta’s new book, “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” in which the New Yorker writer notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Google co-founder Larry Page considered buying The New York Times. (Google Watch)

Search videos

For this week’s videos we have selected a couple of Google’s 15 second search tips. You can watch them all over at YouTube.

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