Pandia continues its review of the trouble Google is facing policy and market wise. The market place A couple of years ago Google's )GOOG( plan of indexing all content everywhere and "everywhen" suddenly seemed realistic. Not only did it do a good job of indexing the open web, it had also started to index the hidden web )information hidden behind login-protected search forms( and above all, its plan to scan all printed material ever published was off to a good start.

Sorry for the absence. The Pandia editors have been out travelling )from experiencing the Korea conflict in Seoul to taking part in the Online Conference in London(. Now we are back onhspace="4″ track, however, with a new list of search engine relevant articles and posts from around the Web. Making Copyright Work Better Online Google Public Policy Blog: We will prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete.

Google has moved from being considered the innovative underdog to a dominant player. Both the European Commission and the US Federal Trade Commission are looking into its practices. But there is hope for Google yet. Google is no longer everybody's darling, i.e. the brilliant little creative kid with chubby cheeks who we forgive everything due to his creativity and disarming charm. In fact, Google )GOOG( is starting to look more and more like Microsoft used to 10 years ago,

To find what you need on the Web, your search engine of choice sifts through enormous amounts of information on your behalf and comes up with a list of search results. Now your job starts: To sift through the search results for the most reliable information. Depending on your query, this can include wading through not only irrelevant sites, but objectionable material of fraudulent sites.

Ask has decided to abandon its search engine in favor of using search results from Google. That is: Ask will keep its database of questions and answers, based on information from selected quality sites, which means that the search site is back where it started: as a natural language search service providing answers to regular questions. By changing direction,

Google launches Instant Previews, presenting screen shots of web pages in search results. This is not a new invention. Other search engines have included thumbnails of web pages in search results before. Still, Google's new Instant Previews is one of the most elegant implementations of this concept we have seen so far. Each search result now has a magnifying glass logo. Click on any of them to activate Instant Previews.

Blekko is a brand new search engine, the latest "Google killer". It was founded by Rich Skrenta, the man behind what came to be known as the Open Directory Project , which was the best bet for quality search results back in 1998. What does his newest invention bring to the world of search? Slash the Web Blekko's slogan is Slash the Web .

This week saw the birth of a new search engine: Blekko. Here is some of the online Blekko coverage, as well as other search engine news articles found this week. Google Does Away With Sponsored Links Label, Now Ads Are Labelled Ads SE Land: The rollout is only on English language domains for now,

A German reader has asked us about our take on the Google Streeview Scandal. The Google Streetview cars, the cars they are using to take photos of streets for its Google Maps service, have recorded and stored private information from local WiFi networks. Here is Per's comment: There is no doubt about it: Google has made a real mess out of this. I am not sure what has really gone on behind the scenes,

Here are this week's search engine news headlines as found by Pandia. 10+ Interesting Instant Search Engines to Check out SE Journal: Ever since Google has introduced Instant search, there have been numerous attempts to replicate the behavior and style and apply it to other search sites. Google Says "Don't Be Afraid" Of Duplicate Content SEO Roundtable from TopRank : A lot of people think that if they have duplicate content that they'll be penalized. In most cases,

Susanne takes a look at three tools for keeping track of your favorite sites and pages. I am a huge fan of online social bookmarking. My account on Delicious holds some 1800 bookmarks in categories from Annotation to Wiki " and I add new bookmarks on a daily basis. To be able to store links with comments in categories of my own choice is a simple yet powerful way to help me retrieve treasures I find online. But new tools are arriving that add functionality.

If you are looking to learn more about how to market your site and rank well in the search engines, here are a few upcoming venues: The Online Marketing Summit The Online Marketing Summit takes place in San Diego for its 6th year in 2011 on February 8 to 10. Marketing peers share ideas, hear from expert practitioners, and learn best practices in the areas of Social Media, Search, Analytics, Website Strategy, Integrated Marketing, Email, Demand Generation and Usability.

As the size of the web keeps growing exponentially and many of us spend more and more time online, finding, refinding and sharing information online are increasingly sophisticated tasks. Now you can take care of them all in one tool. I, for one, am fascinated. Personalized web search Gravee is a metasearch engine that your personalizes search results. The personalization is based on interests and preferences you might have staded in your account, bookmarking, tagging,

There has been another week full of search engine happenings. Here is the news: Mark Zuckerberg Believes Google Has No Incentive to Innovate Google Watch: While he didn't directly name Google, his comments on why he chose Bing as the first search engine he opened Facebook data to in such a detailed fashion are crucial to understanding how he views the King Kong of search.

Those of you who have followed this blog for some years will know that we have offered our readers a clone of the volunteer based DMOZ Open Directory. We used the free Anaconda cgi-script to run our version of DMOZ. However, Anaconda has not updated their script in years and it was only a matter of time before DMOZ made changes that would stop it from working properly. That has now happened. We have therefore decided to discontinue this part of our offering.

It has been another week with Google dominating the headlines. Here are some of the latest earch engine news. Google has added a blue arrow to its search result. Look for a small blue triangle next to one of the search results the next time you do a search. You can use your keyboard arrow keys to move up and down on the search result page. Hit enter to go to the relevant web page. This week Google also moved search to the TV set .

Yahoo! has added a new so-called "accordion" module to search results, giving direct access to media files. For queries that bring up relevant images and videos a large box appears at the top of search results. This box consists of a series of bars for different types of search results. For music results, for instance, there will be bars or tabs for albums, images, videos, news stories and twitter results. Click on one of the bars and it expands to a window displaying,

Google's new map over government censorship and information requests gives a fascinating picture of what countries are trying to influence Google the most. Search engines like Google sit on a lot of information about you and your search habits - at least if you log in to their services, making it possible to identify you as a person. If you also make use of email services like Gmail, someone getting access to that information may learn a lot about you.

Here are some of the search engine related articles and posts we have found interesting this week. How To Find Public Domain Works with Google What are public domain works, and how can you find them on the Web? )Wendy Boswell( Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas Reuters: Google Inc is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are.

Google )GOOG( has launched a new site called Google New, which gives you the latest news on the company's products and services. This is, of course, not the place to get critical reviews of the offerings of Google, but you will at least be kept informed about new search services, YouTube, Android, Google Docs, Google Mobile, Google Earth and Maps, and so on and so forth.