Here are this week's main search engine news headlines from all over the Web. Deconstructing Microsoft AdCenter's Missed Opportunities when Microsoft is in second place, they cannot afford to offer bad usability and disempowered customer support.

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Here are this week's main search engine news headlines from all over the Web. New UCLA Project Streams Twitter Updates From Egypt Unrest on Digital Map of Cairo Subtitled "Voices from Cairo through Social Media," the program displays a new tweet every four seconds over a digital map of Egypt's capital. Fifty Things You Can Do With RSS RSS, a simple technology that makes content come to you, can be used literally hundreds of different ways to simplify your life.

Here is the most recent search engine marketing news nicely wrapped for you. The FTC Privacy Report, "Do Not Track" Options and Web Analytics A closer look at the "Do Not Track" options of the maim browsers from both the perspective of consumer privacy and web analytics. Local Internet Marketing Is Too Complex No wonder local Internet marketing is a mystery to many SMB's and even much larger businesses and organizations.

Today the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv gives a vivid insight into how the young Egyptians started using the social web as a vehicle for free expression and revolutionary collaboration. The death of Khaled Saed On June 6 2010 the 26 year old business man Khaled Saed )alternative spellings: Said and Saeed( entered an internet-café in Alexandria. Two plain clothes police officers came up to him and asked for an ID. He refused and the two officers started beating him up.

The main reason Google rose to be the World's most popular search engine is the quality of the search results. But the Web has evolved since Google was launched and so has Google. With these ten tips you can use Google to search new media or old sites in more advanced ways. Find faces : Add &imgtype=face to the end of the URL after doing an image search to limit your image search results to faces, e.g. bean )for Mr. Bean and not the legume(.

Bing is caught copying Google search results. Or maybe it isn't? One of the really interesting developments in the search engine space last year, was the rise of Bing )NSDQ:MSFT( as a worthy competitor to Google )NSDQ:GOOG(. This is important, as search engine innovation is dependent on there being some kind of well funded and capable alternative to Google. Bing as the only real threat to Google Yahoo! has abandoned their search engine technology,

This week's main search engine news headlines from all over the Web. This should have been the week for discussing the way social media and the Web has caused a revolution in Egypt. It wasn't. Instead the press has focused on Google's complaints about Bing copying their search results. We have written a separate post about the Bing/Google quarrel.

Pandia adds a weekly search engine marketing news column. We know that there are two major groups of Pandia readers. There are librarians and researchers that want to learn about how to find information on the Internet, and there are those that are more interested in search engine optimization and search engine marketing. We have therefore decided to split our search engine wrap-up.

If you are interested to learn more about the team behind the Pandia Search Central, you could take a look at Stephen Arnold's interview with us over at Search Wizards' speak. We are discussing the search engine industry and the future of search. There is also a short snippet over at Beyond Search. Beyond Search and Pandia are currently collaborating on providing you with more information on the enterprise search sector.

There are now a lot of music sites out there like Pandora.com and Last.fm that gather information about people's taste in music. And they do not simply log what kid of bands or songs people search for, but how often each song is listened to and favorited and even which other songs and bands that are popular with people that like a certain artist or song. This way these sites can recommend music with a high degree of accuracy. But their search engines are not always great.

Big search engine news this week: Google founder Larry Page takes over as CEO after Erik Schmidt. Apart from the argument that Page now has the necessary experience to run Google )GOOG(, the reason for the switch is not known. The debate has thrown up a few sensible guesses, though. Although Schmidt has run the company through a hugely successful period, some argue 10 years is enough.

Recent headlines from the world of search engines and the social web: Internet 2010 in numbers pingdom: How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? We're tired of Google, it's time for a change State of Search: It seems history is doomed to repeat itself. Google now takes the role of the lumbering and slow-moving giant of the web, incapable of dealing with the growing mountains of webspam.

Happy New Year to you all! Here is this our first search engine news review of 2011: IndexPing: A Useful Thing Beyond Search: The free service will send an email to a Web master each time the Googlebot nuzzles that Web site. Google News Archive Search P Bradley: Having had a go at Big G, I'd suggest taking a look at the Google News Archive Search which is great fun. It's a collection of hundreds of newspapers, scanned and digitised. Musikki P Bradley: Musikki.

Gone are the days when all that you had to do was build a website and sit back and watch the visitors come, in this ever expanding and competing world that we call the Internet, only the strongest shall survive. While it is always a good idea to incorporate several varieties of SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, there are those that will give much better results than others.

Whether you are a business owner looking for information on your competition, a consumer wanting to make informed purchases or an information professional or journalist doing research, the call for transparency that has resulted from social media has led to a number of web sites where businesses share their info for free or where customers share their opinions. Here are 10 places to go to find info on all kinds of businesses and organisations.

Several European companies have encouraged the European Commission to look into Google's search results, arguing that it gives its own sites and unfair advantage in search results. Pandia argues that they have not understood what web search business is about. Joaquin Almunia, the EU Commissioner of Competition, has opened a wide-raging case against Google )GOOG(. As the International Herald Tribune reports,

We have found some interesting news articles regarding Yahoo! this week. Yahoo! )YHOO( is going to close down search engine old timers AltaVista and AlltheWeb . No, this does not really matter that much, as they now serve as experimental interfaces to the regular Yahoo! search results. The Yahoo! search results are, as most of you will know, powered by Bing. AltaVista and AlltheWeb have not had their own search index or algorithms for a long time. May they rest in peace.

Google launches ebook store There is a lot of Google news this week, with a special focus on the launch of the Google Ebook store. The idea that ereaders and tablets will be a passing fad is definitely dead, and Google wants to compete with Amazon, selling ebooks. Given that Google has spent a lot of time and money on scanning books, the chances of Google becoming the ultimate ebook portal is good.

No matter which search engine you use, the quality of your search results depend on how you formulate your search query. A bad search query delivers inadequate search results. And studies show that even the fabled "Google Generation" don't know how to phrase their searches. An easy way to learn about the structure of solid, more complex search queries is provided by Google Wonder wheel. Here is how: Type your query into the Google search box and click the search button.