Pandia adds a weekly search engine news roundup to its news blog.

Subscribers to our Pandia Search World email newsletter have for a long time been given a regular summary of articles and news stories we have found interesting during the previous week.

Now we have decided to make these weekly search engine news wrap-ups into a weekend blog post, giving you the chance to catch up with the world beyond Pandia.

Note also that you can find the relevant headlines on our search engine news home page. We normally manage to add some new stories three to four times a week.

This month, however, you should not expect much writing from the Pandia team. We are now in Ko Samui in Thailand, relaxing, having spent one hectic and fascinating week in Bangkok. Bangkok is not for the faint of heart, but it is definitely a city worth visiting!

Here are this week’s search engine headlines:

Sphinn: Our Social Site For Search & Internet Marketing Professionals
Search Engine Land launches site for comments and search engine discussions (Danny Sullivan July 12 2007)

Extra! Extra! Knuru introduces Blogwatch!
The new kid on the block, Knuru, a business information search engine, just announced the release of Knuru BlogWatch this week. (AltSearchEngines July 11 2007)

Google People Search
If you're looking for information about someone, one of the best places you can start your search on the Web is Google. (Wendy Boswell, About July 12 2007)

Know your subject
Topic-specific search-engines hope to challenge Google, at least in some areas (Economist July 12 2007)

Web Rankings Shakeup: It's About Time
Nielsen//NetRatings' focus on time spent on sites, rather than page views, amounts to a sea change (BusinessWeek July 11 2007)

Yahoo Officially Announce Arrival of Quality Based Ranking
The Ad quality algo that Yahoo have been testing recently in certain verticals in the UK now has an official arrival date set for the 23rd of July. (PPC Blog July 11 2007)

Introducing Search Suggest on Yahoo.com.
When you do a search on Yahoo!, you'll automatically be given suggestions based on what you have typed - as you're typing. (Yahoo! Search Blog July 11 2007)

Google opening up online office suite to nonprofits
Google is opening up its educational tier of Google Apps to nonprofit organizations within the United States. (cnet July 12 1007)

Downgraded by Google for Search Spam, Squidoo Cleans House
Squidoo downgraded because of search engine spammers using the service. The company introduces anti-spam tools. (ClickZ Juy 13 2007)

For other roundups, see Search Engine Land and Researchbuzz.