Here are the latest news from the world of search engines and Internet searching.

Google Fails To Trounce Bing (Again): The Fallacy Of The Superior Search Engine Revisited
SE Land: Time to revisit the question – is there really a big quality difference between Google and Bing? Over the past 12 months, many things in search have changed… The results are the same as last year – a statistical dead heat; meaning overwhelming parity between the engines.

IBM Assigns Over 200 Patents to Google
SE Watch: According to a blog post by Bill Slawski at SEO By the Sea that references US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filings, IBM has agreed to give Google 188 granted patents and another 29 pending patent applications.

Headslinger
P Bradley: A new way to discover and read the day’s news This is another news curation system which pulls out major headlines for you from various different resources – think of it as a self selecting collection of RSS feeds and you won’t be that far wrong.

Free Movies: A Comprehensive Guide to the Best Websites
About: Here are the top places on the Web to find free movies, videos, TV shows, and all sorts of great free multimedia.

Why Spotify is likely worth more than Pandora, and why it matters
TNW: Music streamer Spotify is a company on the upswing, snagging oodles of fresh users, and setting new records in terms of its total paying subscribers.

Lessons Learned From Noisetrade: Free and Legal Music Downloads
ReadWrite: When it comes to downloading digital music, there is free and then there is legal, but seldom can you have both from the same site, and make money too. Noisetrade.com has been doing this for the past three years.

Quixey – The Search Engine for Apps
P Bradley: Quixey provides a list of apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, Windows and so on, and you can filter to just free resources. I played around with it for a while, and have to say that I was quite impressed with what it turned up.

Are Google’s “New Features” Really That New?
SE Watch: Google’s Inside Search blog announced a recap of 30 different search quality improvements it made in December, 21 of which were improvements that were specifically new to Google. However, looking through the list, it seems that some of these “new” features are nothing new to search engines in general.

SOPA – yeah, not a good idea
Scientific American: If enacted, SOPA will initiate a cascade of unintended effects that will, I am not exaggerating, shut down the internet. Whatever economic benefit is gained from protecting intellectual property will be swamped out by the much larger losses to commerce and communication.

DuckDuckGo Relaunches With New Visual Design
SE Land: The home page is clean and spartan, and the results pages are pretty similar to what they were before, with the noticeable exception that the default light green header has been replaced by a slicker red look.