Here are some interesting search engine related articles from the recent week:

• Accoona re-emerges?

  The business search engine has been transferred to Masterseek B2B (Phil Bradley Nov 1 2008)

• Viewzi — Power Grid View

  This is a search engine that utilises the Google database to produce results in a visual format with a thumbshot of the page that you’ll be going to (Phil Bradley Nov 2 2008)

• Google Blog Search Now Reads Links on Web Pages

  Google Blog Search automatically uses the link: operator and shows list of blogs that have earlier linked to the web address mentioned in your query. (Digital Inspiration Oct 31 2008)

• Google Earth For The iPhone Released

  It is a free app that brings many of the features of the desktop version of Google Earth, to your iPhone. (SE Land Oct 27 2008)

• Microsoft Adds Virtual Earth Images To Live Search

  They appear to be live in the US only right now and around selected points of interest (SE Land Oct 27 2008)

• hakia Launches Personalized Search Feature

  hakia is jumping on the personalized search page bandwagon with My hakia. (SEW Oct 27 2008)

• Gmail Now Supports Gadgets

  You can now include gadgets to the left-hand side of Gmail (Google Blogoscoped Oct 28 2008)

• Want to Abuse Google’s New Hot or Not Buttons”?

  Can I really get better rankings just by clicking this New Button? (SEO Blackhat Oct 28 2008)

• New chapter for Google Book Search

  Google deal with US publishers and authors (Google Blog Oct 28 2008)

• PeopleJar – a New Concept of Social Connecting

  A new people search service PeopleJar offers a new (somewhat innovative) focus on social connecting versus social networking. (SE Journal Oct 29 2008)

• Why Is Yahoo Gaining Search Share? Three Reasons

  Yahoo has gained search share over the last month while Microsoft has dropped a bit. (SE Journal Oct 29 2008)

• Google Using OCR To Index Scanned Documents

  Googlebot recognizes the content of scanned or image-based documents. (SE Land Oct 30 2008)

• Google to Integrate with OpenID

  Google announced that they are starting to push towards a global login. (SE Journal Oct 30 2008)

• RSS Comes To Google Web Search!

  Google has finally launched RSS feeds as one of the options to Google Alerts (PageTraffic Oct 30 2008)

• Google Can Crawl More Than a 100 Links Per Document

  Sccording to the Official Webmaster Guidelines page, it is recommended that one should keep it under 100 links per document (PageTraffic Oct 30 3008)

• Is Yahoo’s Buzz A Buzz-Kill?

  Sites buzzed on Buzz rarely make it to the Yahoo front page (SE Land Oct 29 2008)

• Knol – now with Custom Search

  Custom Search gives us all of the speed and relevance of Google’s search technology (Google Custom Search Blog Oct 30 2008)

• Google Makes All PDF Documents Copy & Paste Friendly with OCR

  If a PDF document is scanned as an image, Google can create an HTML version using OCR. (SE Roundtable Oct 31 2008)

• Amazon’s WindowShop Offers A Sleek Interface For The Online Megastore

  Each product is displayed as a tile on a large grid, which users can pan across until they find something they’re interested in. (TechCrunch Oct 27 2008)

• Microsoft Fast Want a Search Health Check

  Fast ask about the future of enterprise search (BeyondSearch Oct 28 2008)

• Google readying SearchWiki?

  Google is probably planning a feature where you can comment on search results (ZD Oct 26 2008)

• In Google Book Settlement, Business Trumps Ideals

  By settling a lawsuit with book authors and publishers this week, Google is looking out for itself (PC World Oct 30 2008)

• Microsoft faces uncertain financial future as it looks to the cloud

  Ozzie is trying to lead the company into a new period of cloud computing (TechFlash Oct 31 2008)

• Can Anything Derail Google’s Growth Engine?

  Its all about amassing the most talent without falling prey to what’s known as Big Company disease (msnbc Oct 28 2008)

• Google Reader Adds Writing Trends

  This trending tool is great to visually see how often a feed is being updated. (Google Tutor Oct 31 2008)