Recent search engine intelligence gathered for our readers:

• Google’s Lively already home to sleaze

  Google offers an alternative to 3D world Second Life (Phil Bradley July 10 2008)

• Hakia to Accelerate Semantic Analysis of the Web

  Hakia is using Yahoo’s Build Your Own Search Service or BOSS. (Beyond Search July 10 2008)

• Google closes Librarian Central

  Google has decided to close down its blog for librarians and replace it with a newsletter (Phil Bradley July 11 2008)

• Is Google Heading Down the Yahoo! Path?

  This week Google made the fourth announcement in the past 12 months that has made me question whether the company is beginning to lose focus. (Josh Catone July 12 2008)

• 75 Bleeding-Edge Search Engines to Beat Google

  Conroy looks at 75 alternative search engines in 14 categories, naming a “Top Dog� in each category. (AltSearchEngines July 12 2008)

• Google Wants the World’s Knowledge–Yep, All of It

  The core of the argument is that Google has cash. The company scanning books in a shoddy way. And Microsoft, once involved in this expensive game, dropped out. (Beyond Search July 13 2008)

• Yahoo Wants You To Build your Own Search Service (BOSS)

  It’s bold, it’s radical, it’s drastic and yet it can just be Google Custom Search Engine in a Yahoo environment. (SE Journal July 10 2008)

• Competitor SEO Analysis – McCain versus Obama

  Nielsen NetRatings caught my eye today with a press release claiming that Barack Obama has a head start over McCain on the Web. (SEO Theory July 10 2008)

• Microsoft’s Yahoo Interest: Patently Paid Search

  So that’s why the two kept in touch over the years (David Utter at WebProNews July 9 2008)

• Getting Links From Known, Quality Linkers

  Based on some basic tips provided by Roger Montti at SMX Advanced, this post will expand upon those to describe a specific link building plan. (SE Land July 10 2008)

• A New Addition For Your SEO Toolkit: Acrobat Pro 9

  Acrobat 9 may be the first all-inclusive software program that can implement, distribute and event optimize video for search results, into a user-friendly and inclusive software platform. (SE Land July 10 2008)

• YouTube Adding Geographic Search

  Video uploading users have been able to geotag videos on YouTube but not easily search for video by location. (SE Land July 11 2008)

• Google Launches Google Mobile App for Apple iPhone!

  Google Mobile App gives you a single text box to search through your contacts and the web. (PageTraffic Blog July 11 2008)

• Your Opportunity to Guest Blog Has Never Been Better

  Many established and well respected blogs within the online marketing community have recently started to make their audiences available to a variety of new voices. (Marketing Pilgrim July 10 2008)

• 24 iPhone Applications That Accelerate Mobile Search

  Apple is releasing the next generation of its popular iPhone today, and users of the first gen phone (including yours truly) get a software upgrade that enables downloading of applications available for the iPhone 3G. (SE Watch July 11 2008)

• Build Your Own Search (BOSS) with Yahoo

  The Yahoo Search Blog recently announced the launch of BOSS — an open platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API. (Juy 11 2008)

• Google Sitelinks- Do they or Do they Not Affect Search Rankings?

  Google Sitelinks are primarily the links that are usually placed under a search result. (Page Traffic Blog July 11 2008)

• Google CEO Affirms Stance on Independent Yahoo

  Google’s Eric Schmidt reiterated that he believes an Independent Yahoo is best for the industry. (SE Watch July 11 2008)

• Using Google Mobile App On My iPhone

  Barry Schwarts explains it all over at Search Engine Land (July 11 2008)

• Murdoch: News Corp.-Yahoo deal unlikely

  Rupert Murdoch weighed in on the Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn threesome Thursday, saying it was “very unlikely” his media giant News Corp. would be involved any Yahoo deal (CNet July 11 2008)

• Yahoo rejects a new Microsoft deal

  Yahoo said Saturday it has rejected a “ludicrous” deal with Microsoft orchestrated by corporate raider Carl Icahn, who is bent on overthrowing the struggling Internet search pioneer’s board. (AFP July 13 2008)

• Yahoo Still Fighting the Good Fight

  Although a few of our commentators insist that the Yahoo/Microsoft deal is all but inevitable, Rupert Murdoch disagrees. (Marketing Pilgrim July 11 2008)