Here are some of the articles we have found interesting this week:

• Big Update to Webmaster Tools

  Live Search has launched a significant update to the Webmaster Center and brought the Center out of Beta (Live Aug 6 2008)

• Has Google Blocked WebPosition Ranking Software for Good?

  Google has finally closed its doors on one of the most popular search engine ranking software (PageTraffic Aug 7 2008)

• How to start a multilingual site

  Advice from the Official Google Webmaster Blog (Aug 7 2008)

• Google Stops Crawling Blog Posts Not on Blogspot.com?

  It seems that blogs on private domains aren’t being crawled and indexed (PageTraffic Aug 8 2008)

• Yahoo’s Response to Congress on Targeting May Not be Enough

  The Internet giant’s announcement today that it will allow users to opt out of behavioral targeting on its site only applies to the ads users see. (BusinessWeek Aug 8 2008)

• Blinkx Moves To Acquire Miva Advertising

  Blinkx, the video search engine and video search technology firm, is moving to acquire search advertising and contextual ad firm Miva (SE Journal Aug 8 2008)

• Google Offers Guidance on Starting a Multi-Lingual Site

  Do the Beijing Olympics have you thinking global? (SE Watch Aug 8 2008)

• Yahoo To Enable Opt Out Feature For Customized Ads

  Yahoo has announced that they will begin giving their users the ability to opt-out of customized advertising on Yahoo.com. (SE Land Aug 8 2008)

• The Difference Between Crawling and Indexing

  The terms crawling and indexing (and indexing’s cousin, caching) are frequently used together, but you should not consider them synonyms. (SEO Speedwagon Aug 8 2008)

• Searching For Olympics News And Video

  One of the unofficial competitions is among the search engines and companion sites to offer scores, updates and coverage of the games. (SE Land Aug 8 2008)

• Search the Life Sciences with VADLO

  Vadlo is brought to you by two biology scientists who wish to make it easier to locate biology research related information on the web. (Phil Bradley Aug 7 2008)

• Google’s Universe Is the Schrodinger Cat’s Meow

  PageRank can be expressed in terms of a wave function obeying a Schrodinger-like equation. (BeyondSearch Aug 8 2008)

• The AOL flub has analysts revisiting Google

  Following an announcement by Google that its $1 billion stake in AOL has lost significant value, analysts on Friday debated whether Google’s larger strategy beyond its core search business is faltering. (SFGate Aug 9 2008)