Pandia reads the search engine news for you and picks the most important articles and videos.

Video of the week 1: Real time search

Bing was first. Now both Yahoo! and Google has added real time search to their search engine result pages. Yahoo! may, for instance, and twitter tweets at the bottom of its search result pages. Google does it this way:

Headlines of the week

• What Google’s Real-Time Search Means to SEO, PPC & Reputation Management

  There are ways to take advantage of real-time search functionality without spamming. (WebProNews Dec 13 2009)

• What the Google Web will look like in 10 years

  Pingdom: Google makes the web run faster (Dec 9 2009)

• The “Google Phone” Now At Large?

  “It’s beautiful . . . Like an iPhone on beautifying steroids” (SE Land Dec 12 2009)

• Google Adds Universal Results To Suggest & Quick Scroll In Chrome

  Google announced they added universal search results directly in Google Suggest and a “quick scroll” feature as a Chrome extension. (SE Land Dec 11 2009)

• Google’s New Year Countdown Surprise

  When you hit the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on the Google homepage without entering any search query, Google will now show you how many seconds there are left (Blogoscoped Dec 12 2009)

• Yahoo Readying For Bing Integration By “Identifying” Engineers Who Will Become Part Of Microsoft

  Yahoo is in the process of identifying as many as 400 engineers who may be headed to Microsoft (SE Land Dec 11 2009)

• VEVO to launch tonight

  EMI Music has joined Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment in providing top-notch music video content (AltSearchEngines Dec 8 2009)

• Bing Maps Bests Google Maps in Fun, if Not Functionality

  Microsoft’s Bing team trotted out a new version of Bing Maps Dec. 2 that eschews AJAX for the company’s Silverlight technology (Google Watch Dec 3 2009)

• The real time danger: Google opens up for spam and scam

  It turns out that with just a couple of well placed tweets you can convert almost everything in real time search. (SearchCowboys Dec 11 2009)

• Explore a whole new way to window shop, with Google and your mobile phone

  US shops get window bar codes you can scan with your phone and get offers (Google Blog Dec 7 2009)

• Relevance meets the real-time web

  Google adds real time search. Live updates from Twitter and FriendFeed (Google Blog Dec 7 2009)

• Spotify and Last.fm gaining new listeners

  Internet music proving to be rather popular (techradar Dec 10 2009)

• AOL’s Independence Brings Focus on Content and Advertising

  Noticeably missing from AOL’s plans for the future is search. They rely on Google to power their search and there’s no indication that’s changing anytime soon. (SE Watch Dec 10 2009)

• Yahoo Adds Twitter To Search Results

  The inclusion of Twitter results won’t depend on what’s hot on Twitter, but what the hot topics are on Yahoo search. (SE Land Dec 10 2009)

• AOL Returns As Independent Company, Search Decision Looms

  The company has just hired high profile NY Times tech journalist Saul Hansell to run Seed.com, the company’s new content management (and acquisition) platform. (SE Land Dec 10 2009)

• Google To Add “Trustworthy Indicator” to Site Performance Tool

  A Google Webmaster Help thread has reports of page load time speeds spiking up to ridiculous numbers in the new Google site performance reports. (SE Roundtable Dec 10 2009)

• Privacy is not Google’s issue but yours says Schmidt

  If you do something “bad” and it’s being out on the web, don’t start complaining, you shouldn’t have done it in the first place. (SearchCowboys Dec 10 2009)

• 10 SEO Blogs Accepting Guest Posts : Promote Yourself

  By guest posting you expose your business to a wider audience and have an opportunity to link from really powerful sites. (SE Journal Dec 10 2009)

• Learn Wordpress SEO from Joost de Valk

  Joost is the developer of a good number of most of the well known SEO plugins for Wordpress including a brand new Google Analytics Plugin (SE News Dec 9 2009)

• MSN Continues push for local: 2 new video partnerships

  MSN Local Edition Director Cyrus Krohn announced two new partnerships to bring more local video to US cities on the new look MSN.com. (LiveSide Dec 9 2009)

• Facebook Pushing People to Go Public

  When they prompt you to update your privacy settings now, they’ve already selected a default option to publish your information to “Everyone.” (Marketing Pilgrim Dec 9 2009)

• Google Receives 71 Percent of Searches in November 2009

  Ask.com sees 1 percent increase over at Hitwise (Press release Dec 9 2009)

• Local Shopping Search Engine Milo.com Goes Mainstream

  Milo also gives you available inventories of products available on stores near your location. (SE Journal Dec 9 2009)

• Google Personalized Search SEO White Paper

  So, SEOs are freaking out on Google personalized search, now that it is the default. Can’t blame them really but now it is time for action, right? (SE Roundtable Dec 9 2009)

• 10 out of 15 Googlers switch to Bing, when forced to

  Microsoft hired a research firm to do a qualitative study on whether or not Google users were willing to switch to Bing. (SearchCowboys Dec 9 2009)

• Google offers up new way to read the news

  Living News - it’s alive! Kind of (techradar Dec 9 2009)

• Google Chrome for the holidays: Mac, Linux and extensions in beta

  Google Blog: We’ve been working hard to deliver a first-class browser for the Mac — it took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it! (Dec 8 2009)

• Yahoo Issues Takedown Notice for Spying Price List

  Yahoo isn’t happy that a detailed menu of the spying services it provides law enforcement agencies has leaked onto the web. (Wired Dec 4 2009)

Video of the week 2: Google Goggles

On April 1st 2007 Pandia announced that Google was to launch Google Goggles, an interactive visor that will present Internet content in three dimensions.

Well now the Google Goggles are here. It is not a sexy visor, though, but an experimental Android phone application that lets you take a picture of an object and get the photo translated into a search query:

Video of the week 3: Marissa Mayer of Google

Here’s a fireside Chat with Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products and User Experience, Google and Michael Arrington, Editor, TechCrunch. Marissa talks about how to aggregate news from various sources (”the hyperpersonalized news stream”), Google’s conflict with Rupert Murdoch, the Chrome browser and Chrome OS, image recognition search and more: