Here are some of the search engine news stories we have found interesting this week:

• FacteryLabs fact search engine

  Need to research trending topics? Want the basics on a subject quickly and easily? (P Bradley Jan 26 2010)

• Google News Comes Back For More

  Google News has implemented a recrawl feature that allows us to focus on getting the newest articles around while still ensuring that we’re displaying the most up-to-date information. (Google News Jan 25 2010)

• Bing improvements: Twitter Maps, Investor info, and a Mars game

  Bing has set up an interactive game called “Captain Mike’s Mars Adventure” (LiveSide Jan 29 2010)

• Google May Be Crawling AJAX Now – How To Best Take Advantage Of It

  In October 2009, Google proposed a new standard for implementing AJAX on web sites that would help search engines extract the content (SE Land Jan 28 2010)

• Cracking the Google Algorithm, and Understanding Search Patents with Ted “tedster” Ulle

  Stuntdubl: I’m really excited to announce a video that I got a chance to record with Ted, an good friend from WebmasterWorld.com for years who I refer to as “my google oracle” (Jan 28 2010)

• Bing Launches New U.S. Stocks and Funds Feature

  Bing is making it easier for you to keep up with your portfolio and the U.S. stock market. (SE Watch Jan 28 2010)

• How to UNshorten Any URL

  Tools that unshorten any URL you see on a web page to let you where they are linking (SE Journal jan 28 2010)

• Google search is getting more social

  Now when you’re doing a search on Images, you may start seeing pictures from people in your social circle. (Google Blog Jan 27 2010)

• Updated Books Home Page and My Library

  Google Books: We’ve updated the home page by adding the ability to scroll through categories of books and magazines. (Jan 27 2010)

• Ask Jeeves backs Q&A strategy with TV campaign

  Ask Jeeves is launching a TV advertising campaign from 1 February as part of its core questions and answers marketing strategy for the UK site. (Marketing Jan 25 2010)

• Knol Gets Some Publishing Steroids

  Google has added a large number of new embeddable objects for maps, docs, spreadsheets, forms, slideshows, presentations, videos, gadgets and more. (Beyond Search Jan 25 2010)

• Delicious Updates Viewing Options; Adds StumbleUpon-Like Feature

  There’s a new option to “Browse these bookmarks.” (SE Watch Jan 29 2010)

• A Paid Search Glossary

  Before we really start diving into the specifics of managing a paid search account, it is important to cover some standard industry jargon. (SE Land Jan 28 2010)

• Google Maps’ Search Suggestions Get Personal

  Google has announced that it’s now personalizing search suggestions that appear on Google Maps. (SE Land Jan 28 2010)

• Yahoo! Earnings: Revenues Down but Profits Up

  Revenues came in at $1.7 billion, which was down 4% compared to a year ago but up 10% compared to the third quarter. (SE Watch Jan 26 2010)

• Disabling The Google Toolbar Doesn’t Stop Google From Tracking You

  Ben Edelman uncovered evidence that even if you disable the Google Toolbar, Google may still be tracking your web browsing behavior. (SE Land Jan 26 2010)

• Bill Gates defends China’s ‘limited censorship

  But doesn’t mention Google by name (techradar Jan 26 2010)

• No Feed, No Problem – Google Reader Now Tracks (Mostly) Any Website Change

  All you do is copy the URL into Google Reader and click on “create a feed.” Google Reader will then periodically visit the page and publish any significant changes. (SE Land Jan 25 2010)

• Google Introducing a new Rich Snippets format: Events

  Google Webmaster: Last year we introduced Rich Snippets, a new feature that makes it possible to surface structured data from your pages on Google’s search results. (Jan 22 2010)

• Twitter Testing Local Trends

  Twitter Trends shows you what Tweet topics are currently hot and trending on Twitter. SE Land Jan 25 2010)

• Bing Serves Up Recipe Search

  Ratings and a quick look at nutritional information accompany the results. (SE Watch Jan 25 2010)

Video of the Week:

Video on the new recipe search feature over at Microsoft’s Bing: