Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:

From Search Engine Land:

• 10 Google Feeds You Should Subscribe To
  Over the past years, Google has added feed support to a number of services. I thought it would be fun to highlight some of my favorites and others that allow you to get Google material delivered straight to your newsreader. Below, a rundown of feeds offered ranging from Google Blog…
• Google’s OneBox Patent Application
  One of my favorite search related articles is one that Danny wrote a few years back titled Searching With Invisible Tabs. It stands out because it describes one of the major difficulties involving how search engines work – making a user interface as simple as possible, while still somehow providing…
• SuggestLocal Offers Collaboration Tools For Local Search
  A new site SuggestLocal seeks to solve the problem of figuring out where to go and what to do with a group of colleagues or friends. The site isn’t focused on rating local venues (it incorporates Yahoo ratings); rather it’s focused on enabling collaboration and helping people make group decisions,…
• PublicRoutes.com Adds Languages, Personalization
  PublicRoutes.com, a service that helps you find directions from any point in several U.S. cities by subway, walking, driving or taking the bus, has added a translation feature that offers directions in 14 languages, and a feature called MyPublicRoutes, a personalization feature that remembers specific locations entered by users. PublicRoutes.com…
• BBC To Partner With Google On Video Content Deal
  BBC in talks on Google link-up at the Guardian Unlimited reports that the BBC and Google Video are in deep discussions to work together. Under this agreement, Google will make some of BBC’s content available through Google Video and possibly, Google’s YouTube – much as how they do it with…
• Farecast Offers Insurance Policy on Airfares
  Travel search engine Farecast officially launched its Fare Guard service, protecting flyers from volatile airfare prices. The service allows travelers to basically purchase an insurance policy on a flight for $10 ($3 until February 1), thus locking in the published rate….
• Google Adds Sponsored Links To Your Search History
  Google Operating Systems reports that Google has added your sponsored link click activity to Google Search History. For example, I looked at my search history and limited it to just sponsored links, and I noticed I search for “gift dad” and clicked on an ad, yes my dad and father-in-law’s…
• Google To Provide Downloadable E-Books
  Via Techmeme, Google plots e-books coup at the Times Online reports that Google is looking to make books more accessible to users. They hope to “allow readers to download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on mobile devices such as a…
• Wikipedia Nofollows Links Again – Due To SEOs Abusing Wikipedia
  Carsten at Search Engine Journal reports that the English Wikipedia has decided to add the nofollow attribute back to the English Wikipedia space. The decision came from the founder, Jimbo Wales, partially, if not completely, based on a discussion of a new SEO contest, where editors are warned of an…
• Google’s Blacklist Of Phishing Sites Contained Bank Information & More Confidential Details
  Google Blacklist Contained Confidential Information at Techcrunch reports that Google’s phishing blacklist, which is publicly available for anyone to see, had confidential information enclosed. Such information included “usernames and passwords of individuals, including credentials for accounts at banks and other financial institutions.” Google has quietly removed the information that may…
• Google Seeking To Place Ads In Video Games; In Talks To Buy Adscape Media
  Google’s Next Ad Frontier May Be Inside Videogames at the Wall Street Journal shows reports that Google is in talks with Adscape Media, an in-game advertising company. This shows that Google is interested in placing ads within video games such as PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo and other game console units. Since…
• Yahoo Search Index Update – January 2007
  The Yahoo Search Blog officially confirmed the recent speculations of an index update taking place. Priyank Garg of Yahoo says, that Yahoo is “in the process of rolling out some changes to our search results. As usual, you may be seeing some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling…
• Are You In The Circle Of Link Trust?
  How do you define "link popularity?" I talk daily with SEO/SEM firms, content creators, interactive agencies, marketing firms, ad agencies, PR firms, and with other consultants. It’s amazing how varied people’s beliefs are with regards to link popularity, but as different as they are, all share a common purpose. Search ranking. I…
• Social Search Webcast Next Week
  A quick heads-up for our SearchCap newsletter readers and also to anyone who visiting Search Engine Land. Next week the Social Search: New Marketing Opportunities webcast from our sister site Search Marketing Now will be taking place with Search Engine Land executive editor Chris Sherman. The webcast happens Thursday, January…
• Google & Firefox 2 Anti-Phishing Warning In Action
  Last month, I covered a number of ways that browsers and search engines are working together to protect surfers from phishing sites. These are sites pretending to be run by someone else, such as bank, in hopes of catching your personal log-in information. This week while doing my banking, I…

Search News Headlines From Elsewhere:

• Yahoo’s Improved Ad Service, PC World
  
• Verizon: Evil Google has a “chokehold” on the Internet, Computerworld Blogs
  
• This is a test: Video content on AdSense, Inside AdSense
  

• Just An Online Minute… Merrill Still Bullish On Yahoo, MediaPost Publications
  

• Podcast: Google Anti-Phishing Feature & Password Leaks; The Circle Of Link Trust; Nofollow For Wikipedia & More, Daily SearchCast
  
• Google’s Tyrannosaurus Rex, Valleywag
  
• Yahoo News is the 2006 online traffic winner, Journalism.org
• Interview of Yahoo’s Tim Mayer, Stone Temple
• NYT: No, No, NO!!!, John Battelle
• Review of Gord Hotchkiss’s Enquiro Eye Tracking Report II: Google, MSN and Yahoo! Compared, SEO Book
• Google Controls More Network Fiber Than Any Other Organization, V7N Blog
• Who Is The Godfather Of Search, Shoe Money
• Announcing the Elite Retreat San Francisco!, Shoe Money
• Yahoo! keeps Reuters on message, Guardian Unlimited
• France Tel may drop Yahoo as portal ad source -paper, Reuters
  
• It‘s official! You can now run AdSense on the same page as other contextual ad programs, JenSense
• Yahoo Paper Group GM Talks Display Ads, ClickZ
• Cre8asiteforums Educational Scholarship Fund Winners, Cre8pc

• Google Page Creator usability increases 31.4%, Googling Google

• I Don’t Digg Being Dugg, Cre8PC
• Does Google Image Search threaten our civil rights?, Pandia
• Do I Purchase My Brand Keywords or Has Google Improved So Much I Don’t Need To?, Jonathan Mendez’s Blog
• MSN Search’s New Only From Search UK Checkbutton, SEO News Blog

• New SEO definitions to ponder…, SEO Theory Blog

• Upgrading to Content Ads on January 25, 2007, adCenter Blog

• Google’s Sinister(?) Plans, Slashdot

• YouTube yanks my video interview, Social Media
• Google Tags and Labels, Techcrunch
• Ask.com Subleases Space at 555 12th Street, CoStar Group
• The web’s most useful sites, PC World

• Google, eBay Go to War, RED HERRING

• If Google Were a Restaurant, O’Reilly Radar

• Telcos Target Google in ‘Neutrality’ Fight, GigaOM

• The importance of Google AdWords history, SEOptimise
• Google Will Let You Read Books Online, Google Operating Systems
• Former Google engineer donates $250,000 for track at Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas SUN
• Black Google Would Save 3,000 Megawatts a Year, Digital Journal

• Israeli PM ‘Google-bombed’ as ‘miserable failure’, Reuters AlertNet

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About The Author: Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio over here. See more articles by Barry Schwartz