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The search never stops! Here are the search industry headlines of the week, brought to you by Pandia.

China warns Google to obey or ‘pay the consequences’
Web censorship battle rumbles on (techcrunch March 2010)

SEO Professional FireFox Toolbar: Tracks Yahoo! Backlinks
SEO stats as the page loads, stats tracking, on-page diagnostics help, etc (SE Journal March 12 [...]

Search is going mobile. The number of people accessing the web on their mobile phone is skyrocketing and searching on your mobile or cell phone is different than searching on your computer: The screen is smaller and typing can be a hassle. To make your mobile searching fun and easy we present five great tools for mobile web search.

If you have an iPhone, you have probably already seen our Top 5 iPhone search apps article. But whether you are surfing the web from a regular cell phone, a smart phone or a web enebled PDA, searching is bound to be important to you. The five tools presented here, work on all platforms.

Social search is web search aided in some way by social networks. Google (NSDQ:GOOG) launched its own social search this week. Who else is on this scene and how can social search help you find what you are looking for?

What kind of sites came into consideration for this short list of great social search engines? I have not been looking at sites that simply index social networks. I’m not looking for simply for information from social networks. I want search tools for general web search powered by information from social networks.

The sites on this list all search information that has been recommended by someone, and to some degree this recommendation influences the way the search results are listed. This brand of search engine give you search results that appeal to real people, not just search engine spiders.

All the major search engines have their own image search engines. These may actually generate a lot of traffic. Here’s how you attract image search visitors to your site.

PickySite is a brand new social networking site for webmasters, internet marketers, web designers, web developers, and SEO experts. Along with PickySite’s editors, they write group and individual blogs and communicate with other members sharing the same goals.
How it works
On PickySite you can start your own personal group, or corporate blog and share information, links, [...]

A week after the launch, Wolfram Alpha has announced it will soon pass 100 million queries. One reason for this is the fact that this new search engines doesn’t deliver search results like Google, Yahoo and the rest — it solvs problems.

Twitter search is better than it sed to be, but still, finding people on Twitter is not easy. Here are three ways to find the people you are looking for whether you are looking for old friends or you are looking to meet new people.

Twitter’s own people search lets you search for people you know by entering a first name, a last name or a username. I’ve never had any luck finding friends this way — it only really work with usernames and I haven’t had much luck guessing people’s usernames.

If you want to meet new people on Twitter who share your interests, Twitter suggests people you might want to follow (this tool is located behind the Find People link in the top menu). My tweets and Twitter friends all share the common themes of web search and digital learning. My top three suggestions are for cultural gossip from Los Angeles, the world’s third-largest steerable radio telescope and a girl called Allison who introdces herself like this: “hi there, i’m ali. i’m in a band called a fine frenzy. life is funny. let’s have a laugh”.

So I decided to go elswhere for Twitter people search. I found three interesting tools:

You probably browse the web from home, at work and possibly on your smartphone. If you do, storing bookmarks in the browser can be annoying and counterproduvtive. You need an online bookmarking tool to have easy access to all your favorite web sites regardless of which device you use to get online. Here are Pandia’s top 5 social bookmarking services.