People who are new to the business of search engine optimization quickly learn that they need to obtain links to the pages on their website. This can be a daunting task for a newcomer. It sounds simple until you go to do it. How are you supposed to go about it? Where do you start? What kinds of links should you be trying to get? This is where many people go wrong.

Here is our weekly wrap-up of Internet search and search engine industry oriented headlines. Google Buys Online Collaboration Operator DocVerse Something good is about to happen with Google's cloud computing service â€" that is interoperability with Microsoft Office files )SE Journal March 3 2010( The five-minute guide to Google Squared Arrange data from the web in a neat spreadsheet )techradar March 6 2010( Google Launches Gesture Search for Android To use the search,

Search is going mobile. The number of people accessing the web on their mobile phones is skyrocketing. 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.

Another week has passed in the world of search engines, and there are no surprises: Google has again got most of the attention. It seems Europe has decided that Google has to be disciplined. Here are your headlines,

This week an Italian court sentenced three Google executives to six months in prison for allowing users to post a video on YouTube. The video, which was uploaded in 2006, showed kids bullying a child with Down's syndrome. Sickening video Let there be no doubt about our position on publishing such videos online. It sickens us, and it must be possible to bring such cases to court. But it is the one that uploaded the video that should be brought to justice.

Google has added a local search toll to its Search Option panel. The Nearby option only works for google.com searches in English. Here's what you do: Do a search in Google for let's say "Chinese restaurant". Normally you would have added your geographical location to the query: "Chinese restaurant Oslo". Instead click on the link to the Search Option panel. Then click on Nearby link found in the left hand column of the search results page.

State of Search is a new blog covering the search engine scene, focusing on articles relevant to the industry, search engine marketing and social media. It is a well designed site with interesting news articles and comments. The man behind State of Search is Bas van den Beld, who used to write for the European search blog Searchcowboys. van den Beld has been running the Searchcowboys radio show over at Webmasterradio.fm. This is to be replaced by a State of Search podcast.

Startpage and its EU brand Ixquick has long been among the search engine industry's leaders when it comes to protecting your privacy. These services do not record the IP addresses of legitimate users and abolished the use of Unique ID cookies already in 2006. They now take privacy one step further and offer anonymous browsing of your search results through a proxy service. How it works When you do a search, click "proxy" visible option below each search result.

Here are some of the search engine related articles we have found interesting this week: Google Buzz Facing Lawsuit from 31 Million Users? A Florida woman has filed a class action complaint in San Jose federal court alleging that Google Buzz shared personal data without consent. )Marketing Pilgrim Feb 18 2010( 11 handy Google Buzz tips Bend it, shape it, any way you want it' )TechRadar Feb 2010( Bing Indexing New Content & Sites Faster?

This week Microsoft )Nasdaq:MSFT( and Yahoo! )Nasdaq:YHOO( announced that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. This means that Yahoo! will close down its own search engine and start using Bing search results instead, probably as early as next week. And then they were two This is a historical moment.

The Google/China controversy has got a new chapter. The cyber attacks have been traced back to two Chinese schools. As we reported in January Google practically declared war on the Chinese government after they discovered serious cyber attacks at their own servers. It seems the hackers were after both business information and information on Chinese dissidents.

We have gone through the Pandia Powersearch all-in-one list of search engines and directories. We have added new search tools and deleted links to those that have passed away. There are separate categories for tools for web search, directories, local search, social search, microblogs, reference and dictionaries, online books, music, radios, rss and blogs, software, people, and much more. Sites marked NEW! are links that have been added this week.

It is time for our weekly search engine news wrap-up, and this time we provide you with several articles about the controversial new Google Buzz service. Google Buzz is a new feature of Gmail that lets you broadcast comments, photos and other types of content to your network of friends. Yes, it is very much a Twitter, Facebook kind of thing, and Buzz is clearly one of Google's attempts at stealing some of the thunder of those two social networks.

There is still time to sign up for the SMX West search engine marketing conference in California on March 2 to 4. Danny Sullivan and Steve Ballmer SMX is run by the highly knowledgeable search engine industry experts Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman of Search Engine Land fame. This year's scoop is the keynote speaker: CEO Steve Ballmer of Microsoft is going to speak about Bing and the search engine industry scene. The question on everybody's lips is, of course,

Here are some of the search engine oriented articles we have found interesting this week. Lost that users manual? You can find it on the Web There are search engines to target manuals )About Feb 4 2010( Microsoft's Bing 'will make money' Bing, which has struggled to make headway against Google,

In Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland Google is celebrating the Sami national day with a special logo today. The Sami people, one of the largest indigenous groups in Europe, lives in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages, which are members of the Finno-Lappic group of the Uralic language family. February 6 was the date the first Sami congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway.

Here are some of the search engine news stories we have found interesting this week: FacteryLabs fact search engine Need to research trending topics? Want the basics on a subject quickly and easily? )P Bradley Jan 26 2010( Google News Comes Back For More Google News has implemented a recrawl feature that allows us to focus on getting the newest articles around while still ensuring that we're displaying the most up-to-date information.

This week saw the birth of the Apple iPad. In spite of initial skepticism Steve Jobs has decided that the tablet has a future, and he is right. It will also change the way we search. Pandia argues that publishers should support at tool that lets tablet users safe the web and subscription based content at the same time. There has been a lot of negative comments on the iPad. It doesn't do this, it doesn't do that,

Hakia has launched NoBrandSearch.com , a site where you can enact your own battle of the search engines and find out which one you like the best. This is what hakia says about the tool: "NoBrandSearch is an experiment to compare the core competencies of the search engines in the market. )'( Each time you enter a query, each side of the screen is randomly selected from the search engines in the market. Their brands and special features are screened out.

Here are the search engine stories we have found interesting this week: Ballmer Critical Of Google's China Decision Ballmer suggested that Google's decision to no longer filter out internet searches objectionable to the Chinese government was an irrational business decision.