State of Search is a new blog covering the search engine scene, focusing on articles relevant to the industry, search engine marketing and social media.

It is a well designed site with interesting news articles and comments.

The man behind State of Search is Bas van den Beld, who used to write for the European search blog Searchcowboys.

Van den Beld has been running the Searchcowboys radio show over at Webmasterradio.fm. This is to be replaced by a State of Search podcast.

If you go to our Detective page, you will find links to a large number of sites with search engine industry coverage.