Here are this week’s search engine news headlines as found by Pandia.

10+ Interesting Instant Search Engines to Check out
SE Journal: Ever since Google has introduced Instant search, there have been numerous attempts to replicate the behavior and style and apply it to other search sites.

Google Says “Don’t Be Afraid” Of Duplicate Content
SEO Roundtable from TopRank: A lot of people think that if they have duplicate content that they’ll be penalized. In most cases, Google does not penalize sites for accidental duplication. Many, many, many sites have duplicate content.

Google Earth: This Is (1945) London
SE Land: Google has added new historical imagery for London on Google Earth. It allows users to see images of how the city looked during recent history, in this case 1945 and various points forward to the present.

Why Google Can’t Count Results Properly
SE Land: You can do a search, then repeat the same search and ‘subtract’ a word from your original set, and Google will return more matches — not less. It shouldn’t happen. But does, and here’s why.

Google Launches Demo Slam!
SE Journal: Demo Slam is a place were creative and tech-savvy people can create videos to help the rest of the world understand all the newest and greatest technology out there.

Google Stops Street View Data Collection After Canada, Spain Complaints
SEWatch: Canada’s privacy commissioner declared that Google violated the country’s privacy laws, which followed news that Spain’s Data Protection Agency plans to fine Google between €60,000 and €600,000 per offense due to the Wi-Fi data Google collected with its Street View cars.

Google Renames Suggest ‘Google Autocomplete’
SE Watch: Google said that “‘Autocomplete’ fit better with the new [Google Instant] functionality — automatic queries and automatic results.”

Google Maps For Android Gets Search Filters, Real-Time Latitude and More
Google Tutor: Called Google Maps 4.6 for Android, this new version incorporates the new Places design and features, the ability to filter search results and real-time location updating with Google Latitude.

Doing Research With Google Scholar
Google Tutor: Using the Google Scholar portal, you can make basic or advanced searches for peer-reviewed journal articles, court decisions, magazine articles, books, patents, editorials, and other similar written publications.

10 reasons why Myspace’s redesign won’t save it
Digital Arts: Myspace (no longer MySpace, so you know) just overhauled its site, viewable now for new sign-ups and set for broad release in November.

Top 15 of Eric Schmidt’s remarkable quotes
Bas van den Beld: Mr Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, is making a habit out of getting quotes into the media which are to say the least ‘interesting’:
“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about.”
“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”
“Streetview the cars we drive only once, you can just move, right?”
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Google Website clinic: Call for submissions
Google Webmaster Central: Googlers often participate in live site clinics at conferences, giving advice about real-world sites and allowing webmasters to learn by example. Now Google’s Search Quality team is excited to host an online site clinic right here on this blog. In future posts, we’ll be looking at some user-submitted examples and offering broad advice that you can apply to your site.

Google Place Pages Get New Prominence in Search Results
Marketing Pilgrim: Google appears to have officially rolled out the new look SERP’s which places much more importance on a business’ Place Page listing.

Welcome to Google Places Search
SE Watch: Google has clustered search results around specific locations so you can more easily make comparisons and decide where to go.

Official: Google Adding More & Fresher Tweets To Social Search
SE Land: Google Social Search — the service that adds content from your social circle to a search results page — appears to be getting an increase in tweets. And fresher tweets, at that.

Bing Finally Getting Facebook “Liked Results”
SE Land: “How in the world did Bing get the right to snap up my profile and use it on their website?” Yes, that is part of the Bing/Facebook deal – you are automatically opted in to the Bing Facebook app and you must manually turn it off to not have the Bing / Facebook integration.

Google could be sued in UK for taking e-mail passwords and more
State of Search: Britain’s Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham, announced he is launching a new investigation into the Street View project. If found guilty Google could be facing fines going up to 500.000 British pounds.

Russian Yandex Adding Facebook Updates to Search Index
SE Watch: In an effort to boost indexing, Facebook will provide Yandex with a syndication feed that will gather information on Facebook Pages updates and newly created Facebook profiles of public figures, businesses, or organizations.