Pandia takes a look at this week’s search engine news headlines and launches a new search engine news service over at Pandia Search Engine Detective.

Those of our readers that are really hungry for search engine related information have probably made use of our search engine news and information portal. That page includes links to a large number of search engine oriented blogs and information sites, and also has its own “Search on Search” custom made search engine for searching the best of these sites.

What has been missing, though, is a proper search engine news section, with links to the very latest search engine news as reported by the best sites on the topic. Well, despair no more, we have now added a list of updated search engine news headlines, as an addition to the Pandia headlines that were already there.

At the moment the following sites are included in the feed: Google Blog, John Battelle’s Searchblog, Search Engine Roundtable, Matt Cutts’ Blog, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Watch Blog, Phil Bradley’s weblog, ResearchBuzz, Search Engine Land, Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, Google Tutor, Internet Marketing Monitor, Search Engine Journal, Unofficial SEO Blog, Pandia Search Engine News, Yahoo! Search Blog, Live Search Blog and the Ask.com Blog.

Like most web site owners we love returning visitors, and we would of course very much like to bookmark that page and visit it daily to get your search engine news fix. Which is why we should probably not tell you that you can subscribe to the RSS feed using your feed reader. Ah, we are so weak! Here it is: http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/YXGQARHNLG.rss

News of the week

And here are some of the the latest stories found by Pandia (and yes, these are, as opposed to the feed mentioned above, stories we have selected manually).

Users complain new Gmail version slow, crashes browsers
According to Computerworld the current upgrade to Gmail is getting the thumbs down from users (Nov 16 2007)

Yahoo Launches Open Source Program for Distributed Computing
Yahoo’s planning to make Hadoop available (in a data center) for the academic community for software resource. (Researchbuzz Nov 17 2007)

Paid Reviews Penalized by Google?
PayPerPost are currently being punished with lowered PageRank. (Blogoscoped Nov 17 2007)

Reminder — GMail Storage Increasing
Google not only increased their storage limit to 6 GB (by January 2008), but the "rate of increases" has gone up by 10X, meaning that you'll be unlikely to need more storage in the future as the amount you have passes 10, 11, 12, gig (Traffick Nov 17 2007

Web Sites Tear Down That Wall
Rupert Murdoch expects to stop charging for access to the Wall Street Journal's Web site (Washington Post Nov 16 2007)

Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones
Google wants to make mobile networks more open, so that consumers can use any Internet service and application (Wall Street Journal Nov 16)

Google co-founder Larry Page and Lucy Southworth are tying the knot
Pandia wishes them all the best! (Jersey Shore Nov 15 2007)

The Death of E-Mail
For the Facebook generation, it's hard to imagine a life of only e-mail, much less a life before it (The Slate Nov 14 2007)

High-quality YouTube videos coming soon
The service is testing a player that detects the speed of the viewer's Net connection and serves up higher-quality video if they want it. (Cnet Nov 14 2007)

Google Planning New Video Venture
Google is planning some sort of new TV/online video venture with Simon Fuller, the creator of the UK's Pop Idol (SE Land Nov 14 2007)

Impending Paid Search Recession?
Comment on Steve Rubel's prediction of an impending recession for poor old Google (Nov 14 2007)

Compete Search Analytics – My Review
The product provides some useful basic functionality at a great price and a few clever features (SEM Gurus Nov 15 2007)

Live Search Introduces Domain Rank & Page Rank Green Bars
Webmasters can now login to Live Search Webmaster Tools and find their "Domain Rank" and the "Rank" of their top pages. (Search Engine Roundtable Nov 15 2007)

The Big Juicy Twitter Guide
Caroline Middlebrook says it all. About Twitter, the social messaging service. (undated)

Can social bookmarking improve web search?
Phil Bradely on an Infolab report on social bookmarking (Nov 13 2007)

Microsoft Link Command Comes Back to Life After 8 Months
You can now use the link commands at Live.com again. (SE Roundtable Nov 12 2007)

Why You Need to Make a Facebook Fan Page for Your Website NOW!
Pages include links. Because the pages are public, you can get some nice facebook.com link credit… (SE Journal Nov 12 200)

Germany approves new data laws – the end of Gmail in Germany?
Where Google takes particular issue is that the law would essentially end the practice of anonymous email accounts. (Google Tutor Nov 12 2007)

University Sues Google Over Patent
US Northeastern University and a start-up firm say Google's distributed search technology infringes on their patent. (PC World Nov 12 2007)

Google blocks Yahoo's Pipes
Yahoo's Pipes requests for Google News URLs are being forwarded to Google's blocking page. (bigmouthmedia Nov 12 2007)

Yahoo sets program to boost distributed computing
Yahoo has been a main supporter of Hadoop, an open source distributed file system that lets users process massive amounts of data. (Reuters Nov 12 2007)

Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?
The Mozilla Corporation collects tens of millions of dollars from search engine companies (NYT Nov 12 2007)

Microsoft Adds Multi-function Tab To Live Search Homepage
This tab includes a drop-down menu of various pages in beta. (Unofficial SEO Nov 12 2007)