This week ComScore presented the first global search engine usage statistics. No surprises there: Google dominates world searching as it does the American and European markets.

In August more than 750 million people, an estimated 95 percent of the worldwide Internet audience, made some 61 billion searches according to ComScore.

The sites of Google took care of some 37.1 billion of these searches.

Yahoo! was number 2 with 8.5 billion queries. Chinese search engine Baidu ranked third with 3.2 billion, followed by MSN/Live Search with approximately 2.2 billion queries.

Gmail increases free mail storage capacity

A few weeks ago we asked Google for more Gmail storage. Now the Google Gmail Blog says that they will boost storage.

Googlified reckons that free storage will reach 4.2 GB by the 23rd of this month. If that’s not enough, you may pay to get more.

Pandia this week:

Ixquick adds video search
Top 10 Useful Web Tools

Here are some other headlines from this week’s search coverage:

Paid Links Simply Aren’t Going Anywhere
Google has become so intent on penalizing those buying and selling links that they are requesting users to report any knowledge of them. (SE Journal Oct 12 2007)

Old Job-Search Sites like Monster.com Face a Nimble Threat
Now, the hottest names in online recruitment are increasingly specialized job sites. (WSJ Oct 9 2007)

YouTube Is In Your Google Earth Playing Your Videos
Google adds geotagged YouTube videos to Google Earth (Wired Oct 11 2007)

The New Google Desktop 5.5 Beta: It’s in the Details
The feature being touted the most is the ability to add Google Desktop gadgets to your iGoogle page (Google Tutor Oct 8 2007)

Matt Cutts Clarifies Appropriate Uses of the nofollow Tag
Google's Matt says that if Googlebot can't access the page, don't try to pass PageRank to pages. (SE Roundtable Oct 11 2007)

Google-Doubleclick deal seen winning approval
Google's purchase of advertising company DoubleClick for $3.1 billion will be approved by U.S. regulators (Reuters Oct 10 2007)

Yahoo Exec Leaves for Travel Search Engine SideStep
SideStep has appointed Matthew Heist, former VP at Yahoo, as its senior VP of global search (Mashable Oct 11 2007)

Google Founders Pick Up Another Big Plane
Sergey and Brin buy a 757. Nice to have. (New York Times Oct 10 2007)

Blinkx tailors video search service for Western Europe
Video search service blinkx adds French, German and Spanish content to its index (Raw Oct 9 2007)

Study: Google gets bulk of world search
Around the world, Internet users are conducting about 1.4 million searches every minute — most of them through Google (AP Oct 9 2007)

AskPoodle Simplies and Personalize Local Search
AskPoodle.com is kind of a Yahoo Answers for small business search (Search Engine Journal Oct 9 2007)

Interview with Danny Sullivan & Neil Patel on SMX Social Media
There are still plenty of old school marketers and brands in control of significant budgets that have not yet adopted standard search marketing (Online Marketing Blog Oct 9 2007)

A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky
What iif you don’t know exactly what you want? The New York Times looks at Stumbleupon (Oct 7 2007)

Google on Using a Knowledge Base of Articles to Make Searches Smarter
SEO by the Sea on Google's attempt to identify different persons with similar names (Oct 9 2007)

Facebook Rumor: A New MySpace
Facebook is working on a platform for bands that will be launched later this year. (Marketing Pilgrim Oct 10 2007)

Reach out and message someone
Google buys the Finish mobile start-up Jaiku (Google Blog Oct 10 2007)

Google Adds 6 More Cities To Street View
360-degree views of Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland and Tucson. (Unofficial SEO Oct 10 2007)

Blinkx Gives Another Option for Blog/Site Monetization
Video search engine Blinkx will reward blog/site owners for embedding Blinkx videos on their respective sites. (SE Journal Oct 10 1007)

Google's Ajax Search API
For example, Google's Ajax Search API allows a web master to integrate search results within their web page, with complete control over the look and feel (SE Watch Oct 10 2007)