We have covered the Web buzz on the China/Google conflict in a separate article. Here are some headlines from the rest of the world of search and search engines.

• Google Agrees to Censor Encyclopedia Dramatica Entry in Australia

  Google has agreed to take down links to a website that promotes racist views of indigenous Australians. (Blogoscoped Jan 17 2010)

• How Google Ranks Tweets

  Algorithms judge the relevance of microblog posts containing 140 characters or less. (Technology Review Jan 13 2010)

• Find Twitter Lists by Exploring Tags

  I like List Tags, which allows you to enter a Twitter user, find out what tags are associated with them, and then get lists based on those tags. (ResearchBuzz Jan 11 2010)

• Search for Scholarly Journals on CiteULike with DeepDyve

  DeepDyve and CiteULike announced today that the companies are collaborating to deliver a superior way to easily and affordably share and read scholarly information on the Internet. (AltSearchEngines Jan 14 2010)

• Wolfram|Alpha Adds Physical Activity Data

  Wolfram|Alpha announced last week that it has added data for a variety of physical activities. (ResearchBuzz jan 11 2010)

• Social science meets computer science at Yahoo

  Yahoo Labs has bolstered its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities around the world. (SFGate Jan 11 2010)

• Yahoo To Kill Shopping API & Outsource to PriceGrabber, Not Bing

  Yahoo quietly announced they are discontinuing their Yahoo Shopping API, because they are going to be outsourcing the Yahoo Shopping component of their site to PriceGrabber.com. (SE Roundtable Jan 12 2010)

• Doing Real Time Search? Watch Your Word Order

  Google does change the real time search results based on your word order. (ResearchBuzz Jan 13 2010)

• Bye Bye Baidu : China’s Largest Search Engine Hacked

  The Iranian Cyber Army has done it again. Their clever team of hackers has taken hostage of Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine (SE Journal Jan 12 2010)

• Serious Information Trapping on Twitter with RowFeeder

  Got some keywords you want to monitor and you don’t want to miss a thing? (ResearchBuzz Jan 13 2010)

• Upload and store your files in the cloud with Google Docs

  Google Docs Blog: We’re happy to announce that over the next few weeks we will be rolling out the ability to upload, store and organize any type of file in Google Docs. (Jan 12 2010)

• Doesn’t Google know how to rank social media?

  Pagerank is not dead at all, its alive and kicking and its looking at Twitter. (SearchCowboys Jan 13 2010)

• Baidu: The Official Google Blog You Seek Does Not Exist (and Don’t Even Try Looking For It)

  Chinese Baidu puts a lid on the Google/China war (SE Land Jan 13 2010)

• Want Your Tweets on Google? Get More (Better) Followers

  One of the many ranking signals they use is the number and quality of your followers (Marketing Pilgrim Jan 13 2010)

• Google Now Corrupting Lingual Identity

  Google UK gave you American English - for a while (SE Journal Jan 14 2010)

• Shashi Seth Now At Yahoo From AOL, Cooliris & Google

  Shashi Seth will be managing Yahoo’s Search team and all things related to Yahoo Search. (SE Land Jan 14 2010)

• Google Gets 72% of Searches in December 2009

  Just like Nielsen’s stats, Google is also leading the pack with Hitwise (SE Journal Jan 14 2010)

• Where Have All The Old Tweets Gone?

  You won’t find any that are more than a week or so old on Twitter. (SE Land Jan 14 2010)

• Google Offers Mobile Search Suggestions

  Google announced that it is offering optimized search suggestions for your mobile searching pleasure. (Marketing Pilgrim Jan 15 2010)

• Yahoo Adds Feature to Import Google Adwords Campaigns

  Yahoo is saying “We know how much you use Google Adwords so just ‘copy and paste’ it to us and spend with us. Please!” (Marketing Pilgrim Jan 15 2010)

• Search Engine for PowerPoint Presentations

  SlideFinder, at http://www.slidefinder.net/, helps you find PowerPoint presentations on the Web. (ResearchBuzz Jan 13 2010)

The video of the week: On Google’s Personalized Search