Here are some of the search engine stories we have found interesting this week:

Four Reasons To Avoid Using Dates In URLs
Everything you do has a chance to provide a clean or dirty signal of relevancy to search engines and searchers. (SE Land Jan 17 2008)

Google Mac Goodies: Picasa Coming This Year?
First of all Google gave their iPhone interface a Macworld Makeover, including a new version of Gmail for the iPhone. And then the iPhone and iPod touch got the My Location feature in Google Maps (Google Blogoscoped Jan 16 2008)

Yahoo Replaces PageRank Assumptions with User Data
A patent application from Yahoo, published last week raises a number of issues, from people who know PageRank very well. (SEO by the Sea Jan 16 2008)

The Top Ten Most Useful Google Services
Wendy Bosswell of About.com on the top ten most useful Google services: the products that consistently help people achieve the ultimate productivity, demonstrate ease of use, and are viable for the long term. (Jan 19 2008)

Local Search Engine Grayboxx Goes National!
Local Search engine has concluded its national trial phase and is now available across the United States. (AltSearchEngines Jan 16 2008)

Wales Summons Librarians to Helps Improve Wikipedia
According to Jimmy Wales, the quality of the Wikipedia would be improved if only librarians ‘engaged’ with the encyclopedia. (Phil Bradley Jan 15 2008)

10 Ways Google is More Social Than You Think
Yes, Google has quite a few social web networking sites, Google Tutor reports (Jan 15 2008)

Google.org doles out more than $26 million
Search giant funds global health threats and other causes (Palo Alto Daily News Jan 17 2008)

Die Zeit Launches Free Online Archive
Die Zeit, a German newspaper, has launched a free online archive that goes back to 1946 and contains over 250,000 stories. (Researchbuzz Jan 12 2008)

Pioneering research shows ‘Google Generation’ is a myth
All age groups revealed to share so-called ‘Google Generation’ traits (The British Library Jan 16 2008)

Generation Google - are they the Indigo Children?
As it turns out, these kids aren’t any more adept at Googling than the average Internet user. (WebMetricsGuru Jan 18 2008)

Yahoo Outsource Search to Google?
Pressure on Yahoo to outsource search to Google or MSN continues to mount. WSJ slams Jerry Yang’s strategy to remake Yahoo into the front page of the Internet. (SE Watch Jan 19 2008)

No porn, no ads, please: we’re Google
Google is allowing anyone to develop themes for use on its customised home page (APC jan 18 2008)

Delicious Integrated Into Yahoo Search Results
Yahoo is testing the integration of its Delicious bookmark service into Yahoo search results pages (Techcrunch Jan 19 2008)

Google The Double Standard of Being an Authority Website
The simple fact is that right now trust and authority are weighted so high within the algo that they complexly trump all other factors. (Graywolf Jan 20 2008)

Yahoo! To Support OpenID Standard
Yahoo! has announced that it is going to support the OpenID 2.0 standard enabling a universal Internet log-in for users.(PageTraffic Jan 18 2008)