Here are some of the recent search engine related news articles and blog posts Pandia has found interesting.

• 8 Crazy-Cool Search Engines You Should Know

  There’s a new breed of search engines out there, and they’re letting users search and find some utterly crazy stuff. (SE Land April 16 2010)

• Google Twitter Follow Finder, the Newest Service From GoogleLabs

  New service allows you to analyze a users following/followers to help you find people that you may be interested in following (Stay on Search)

• 36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To

  Every day a new SEO myth is born; unfortunately, not every day does an old SEO myth die off. (SE Land April 15 2010)

• Google Off to a Great Year, Gains $6.7 Billion in Q1

  Q1 2010 revenue growth at 23% compared to the same period in 2009 (SE Journal April 15 2010)

• Opera Mini on iPhone hits million downloads

  Faster and slicker Norwegian browser for iPhone users tops App Store (techradar April 2010)

• Twitter boasts of 105 million registered users

  Twitter co-owner Biz Stone has revealed that the site now has 105 million registered users. (techradar April 2010)

• Google Showing Clickthrough Data In Webmaster Tools

  Some webmasters are seeing clickthrough statistics in their Google Webmaster Tools accounts. (SE Land April 14 2010)

• Twitter Donates Entire Archive of Public Tweets to Library of Congress

  Twitter is donating access to the entire archive of public Tweets to the Library of Congress for preservation and research. (SE Watch April 14 2010)

• Bing Makes Gains In Search Advertising Share: Report

  The news comes from the latest quarterly report written by Efficient Frontier (SE Land April 13 2010)

• Six Reasons SEOs Love Blogs

  Perhaps the most powerful aspect of blogs when it comes to search engine optimization is the speed with which you can build inbound links. (SE Guide April 7 2010)

• Six Reasons Marketers Love Blogs

  Jennifer Laycock April 9 2010: Reason #1: Focused on Education and Awareness (SE Guide)

• Apple to Shed Google for Bing on iPhone, Redux

  Google is the preferred search service in Apple’s hot new iPad tablet. (Google Watch April 12 2010)

• Yahoo, Now With Firehose

  Yahoo! Updates aggregates social updates from Yahoo! and across the Web (ResearchBuzz April 13 2010)

• A cool search engine for podcasts – DoubleTwist

  DoubleTwist easily found podcasts for The Next Web, how to drink Absinthe, and the legacy of ABBA, plus many high quality sources (Charles Knight April 14 2010)

• Google search story creator

  Great for creating simple (or even complex) stories with a 30 second limit to them. (P Bradley April 15 2010)

• Library of Congress: We're archiving every tweet ever made

  Library is archiving for posterity every public tweet made since the service went live back in 2006 (ars technica April 15 2010)

• Siri and Its Virtual Assistant

  iPhone virtual personal assistant that with just a vocal prompt can purchase theatre tickets, call for a taxi or make restaurant reservations (Beyond Search April 16 2010)

• Facebook Twice as Popular as Google in the Workplace

  Business employees are visiting Facebook from the workplace more than any other internet site, including Google, Managed Security Services company Network Box discovered (Mashable April 17 2010)

• 8 Search Engine Related iPad Apps

  I scoured through the App Store to get the most significant of these search-related iPad apps (Arnold Zafra SE Jorurnal April 5 2010)

• Google Integrates Buzz to Gmail for Mobile

  Interestingly, Google did not do the same integration with the Gmail app for Android. (SE Jorunal April 6 2010)

• URL removals explained, part II: Removing sensitive text from a page

  The steps you can take if we’re still showing old, removed content in our search results, either in the form of a “snippet” or on the cached page that’s linked to from the search result. (Google Webmaster Central April 6 2010)

• Google Earth helps discover rare hominid ancestor in South Africa

  Scientists announced a new hominid fossil discovery in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site in South Africa. (Google Blog April 8 2010)

• Microsoft Gives Bing Shopping a New Look

  Specifically, Bing Shopping now has a list of product categories on the left side of the homepage. (Search Engine Journal April 8 2010)

• Twitter buys Tweetie, develops official iPhone app

  Tweetie is one of the leading third-party apps for the popular microblogging service. (techradar April 2010)

• Steve Jobs: ‘Search Hasn’t Happened On Mobile Devices’

  Search is present on the iPhone of course, but it’s a “secondary” part of the overall user experience. (SE Land April 12 2010)

• Google Made its First UK Acquisition, Plink Mobile Visual Search

  It’s first product was called PlinkArt, a visual recognition tool that analyzes pictures of well-known art works and paintings and then identifies them. (SE Journal April 12 2010)

• Google unveils next-gen Google Docs

  Not Gears compatible, so offline editing chopped for now (techradar April 2010)

• Google Says, We Don't Change Search Results For "Political Reasons"

  This is a strong statement saying Google does not manually move sites up and down for political reasons. (SE Roundtable April 13 2010)

• Twitter Unveils Promoted Tweets

  Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to a wider group of users. (SE Watch April 13 2010)

• Google: we plan to open up our Goggles platform

  But no facial recognition due to privacy concerns (techradar April 2010)

• Google Adds Recipes To Rich Snippet Markup

  For certain sites with recipe content, Google users will see quick facts when these recipe pages show up as part of the search results. (Google Webmaster April 13 2010)

• All The Old Tweets Are Found: Google Launches Twitter Archive Search

  Google has launched a Twitter archive service, giving it a more comprehensive index of tweets over time than even Twitter itself. (SE Land Apr 14 2010)