Here are some of the latest headlines from the world of search and social: No TV? Emergency Search When Google Is Not Fast Enough Jonathan Allen: What I learned through experience about real-time search, as the London Riots unfolded. Myspace: A Cautionary Tale or Just a Basic Belly Flop? Kara Swisher: One of the big problems of Myspace, as has been much observed, was its inability to keep innovating its technology and improving its offerings. Twitter Adds @User, Activity Tabs,

Yahoo! stops online bookmark users from adding new pages for the next three months! Yahoo! recently sold the renowned bookmarking service delicious.com, in an effort to refocus the company. Although we found it strange that they decided to give up a good trademark and wide user base like delicious, we agreed that it makes sense to keep one online bookmarking service only. Yahoo! Bookmarks is a decent offering, although it does not have the same social feel as delicious.

Google's new social network, Google+/Google Plus, may be the success Google is hoping for. What do the numbers say? The buzz in the press seems to indicate a story of success. However, Chitika Insights analyzed a series of traffic dating back to the launch of Google+ to determine the reliability of these statements. Since its launch, Google+ has undergone a surge in use, peaking at .

Google is now offering Norwegian police access to Anders Behring Breivik's gmail account. The Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reports that the country director of Google Norway, Jan Grønbech, contacted Norwegian police after the terrorist attack, offering them assistance. According to Grønbech, the police will follow up on the offer, but they have not asked for the data yet.

This week's search engine marketing articles. Some of you will have noticed that the scope for our selection of search engine marketing news articles and post is getting wider. We are increasingly including stories about social media and new publishing technologies. The reason for this is simple: You can no longer develop a really efficient search engine marketing campaign without taking social media into consideration.

Well, this has been one seriously disturbing week. Unless you have been living under a rock you will have heard the story about the "Christian Conservative" bombing of the Oslo government buildings and the following shooting at Utøya. Given that the Pandia team lives in the center of Oslo, and Per has had his own office bombed, we are slightly off key at the moment. But do you know what? We are glad the blogosphere and the twitterverse is turning back to normal.

The Norway bombing and shooting shows us that there is a need for search solutions that let you follow foreign language news and social web streams in real time. By Per and Susanne Koch of Pandia The latest updates report 85 dead from the Utøya shooting and some 7 killed in the Oslo bombing on July 22. Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian right wing "Christian" nationalist and "anti-multiculturalist" has been arrested for the killings.

Larry Page, co-founder and new CEO of Google, has started streamlining the company, removing some of its less known offerings. Today saw the end of the Google Directory and the announcement of the closure of Google Labs. RIP Google DMOZ Directory The Google Directory was Google's version of the Open Directory/DMOZ . The directory gave users access to a database of sites hand picked by flesh and blood human beings. In the early days of Internet searching,

We have spent some time updating our beginner's guide to search engine marketing this week, including " for instance " new tips on the use of social media in search engine marketing. Here are some recent search engine marketing and optimization news articles that might be of interest.

Get a Google+ invite! Google has gotten a lot of positive buzz about its Facebook-challenger Google+ this week, and some of it is definitely well deserved. The fact that so many media experts have started using it is certainly a good sign. However, it is still invitation only. Send an email to per.koch@gmail.com with the headline "Google+ Invite", and we will send out as many invites as Google allows.

If you are a freelancer, particularly online, you need a good grip on search engine optimization issues. Whether you are doing social media marketing or blogging, journalism or whatever, SEO is a language you need to know how to speak. If you don't, you may find yourself battling with SEO requirements from clients without even understanding what they want. That is definitely not where you want to be.

Many local businesses don't even know what they want to rank for on the Internet - and some don't even know what the word rank means when you apply it to Google. It's all lumped into that whole "Computer Stuff" and "Rocket Science" category - which most people that have done a decent amount of SEO know is not exactly true. However there is a little bit of jargon and "know-how" involved,

Chances are, you've heard of crowdsourcing? And no, it's not just a buzz word but rather a revolutionary concept that allows people to save time and money, as well as to make a living working from home for tens of thousands of crowdsourcers. So don't think of masses, mobs and crowds as something dumb, scary and unruly. Here are eight companies that chose crowdsourcing as their business model. Crowd in! By Guest Writer Dmitry Davydov Crowdsourcing,

The search goes on! More news from the world of search engines. Details of Facebook's music dashboard are revealed techradar: Facebook is looking to integrate music into the site's normal homepage and use a tab for music, which will be situated under the other tabs currently on the left-hand side of the page, like Places, Pages and Games. Slash Through Spam With Blekko's Zorro Update! TechCrunch: But the new version of search engine Blekko,

In celebration of Social Media Month, Webucator is now offering a social media training giveaway for Pandia readers. By entering our new contest, you can win one a free seat in one of their social media training classes. This class will be taught by a live instructor in an online, interactive classroom. This prize is valued to US$690.00. If you're looking for a way to gain new knowledge in the fields of social media and marketing,

Some search engine marketing posts and articles we have found interesting this week. Dilbert Features The Darker Side Of SEO SE Roundtable: With all the mainstream news press of JC Penney, Overstock and Forbes using paid links and some darker methods of boosting their rankings in Google - Dilbert has decided to feature some best practice lessons in their past two cartoons.

Here are some essential search engine news headlines from this week. Google Test Adds Website Names, Subtracts URLs in Search Results SE Watch: Google appears to be testing a new look for search results, adding the name of popular websites including LinkedIn, Facebook, Apple, Wikipedia, Amazon.com, Yahoo, and Bing next to the page's URL. In some cases, Google replaces the URL entirely.

Here are some interesting stories from the world of search engine marketing and optimization. As always we cast the net wide, and include other stories that may indirectly affect your online marketing efforts. Will Author Markup Help Google's Scraper Problem? SE Watch: Using HTML5 and XFN markup like the rel="author" and rel="me" code, respectively, publishers can now definitively identify themselves as the authoritative author of their published work.

Just like brick and mortar stores see a drastic increase in traffic and sales during the holidays, so do websites with holiday products. In order to take advantage of this holiday traffic though, you'll need to know how to properly optimize your website for the search engines. It takes more than just supplying the hottest products on your website, you'll need to do your research along with some special holiday marketing.

How do you pronounce English words and use them? A new video-based pronunciation dictionary offers pronunciation and use cases from videos of real people in real situations. EmbedPlus The dictionary , which is so brand new it does not yet have a name, is built by the team behind EmpedPlus . A team of coders and videoheads found that many attractive and practical features, even ones from the conventional TV world, are absent in today's popular players.