Here are some of the search engine headlines we have found interesting lately:

• Please Stop Abusing Your Hx Tags, It Doesn’t Help Your SEO Efforts

  Instead of naming a new style, the developers just style an Hx tag and then plaster it throughout the site. (SE Guide May 21 2008)

• Top 10 Google Flubs, Flops, and Failures

  Not everything Google touches turns to gold. These are some of Google’s biggest nonstarter Web services, software programs, and business moves. (PC World May 2008)

• Google May Penalize Fake Linkbait, According to Matt Cutts

  Many blogs are abuzz with the news about a recent fake piece of linkbait that ended up capturing the eyes and ears of many big traditional news outlets and bringing the originating story thousands of backlinks. (SE Roundtable May 23 2008)

• Microsoft Burns Book Search – Lacks “High Consumer Intent”

  SE Land May 23 2008: “Today, news that the site along with Live Search Academic are being closed next week, since they lack the “high consumer intent” that Microsoft is now focusing on. So much for trying to seem like the much-needed “good” alternative to

• Compete: Yes, Google Hits New Search Share High

  The latest search engine share stats out from Compete show Google has hit a new high — just as did previous stats out this month from Hitwise, Nielsen and comScore. (SE Land May 23 2008)

• Google Sites now open to everyone

  Now we’ve made it easy for anyone to set up a website to share all types of information — team projects, company intranets, community groups, classrooms, clubs, family updates, you name it — in one place, for a few people, a group or the world. (Google

• Google Says It Will Defend Competitive Rationale of a Yahoo Deal

  How can Google, the Internet search and advertising giant, contend that teaming up with Yahoo in search ads would not invite an antitrust challenge? (NYT May 22 2008)

• Google Spreadsheets turns into Google Wiki

  The Spreadsheets Division is now morphing partly into the Wiki Division with the news that anyone can now edit a spreadsheet – without the need for a Google account. (Google Tutor May 18 2008)

• Music search engines

  Phil Bradley tests music search engines (May 18 2008)

• Top 10 Ways to Search Wikipedia

  Alternative interfaces to Wikipedia search (Alt Search Engines May 21)

• Introduction to Google Search Quality

  Google Blog: But being completely secretive isn’t ideal, and this blog post is part of a renewed effort to open up a bit more than we have in the past. (Google Blog May 20 2008)

• Microsoft to give cash back for search-engine use

  Microsoft is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine (Orlando May 25 2008)

• Facebook Blocks Google’s Friend Connect Program

  Google’s Friend Connect allows the sites of musicians, political campaigns and others to incorporate profile data from several social networks