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, can be a viable runner-up and make money online eventually (Independent Feb 3 2010)

• Inside Search: Raymond Bentinck of Exalead

  On the French search engine Exalead and enterprise search (Beyond Search Feb 3 2010)

• Some Insight Into How Bing Handles WWW vs Non-WWW Canonical SEO Issues

  It really doesn’t matter if the site your link is residing on is www or non-www. (SE Roundtable Feb 5 2010)

• Siri: Not A “Search Engine” But You Might Use It Like One

  It’s intended to enable you to do more with your voice and your phone in fewer clicks or moves. (SE Land feb 5 2010)

• Google Maps To Add “Google Store Views”

  Google came to their store to take pictures for a new Google Maps product named “Google Store Views.” (SE Land Feb 4 2010)

• Everything You Need to Know About Search Engine Friendly URLs & Broken Links

  One of the first site architectural issues to consider is how your URLs will read. (SE Guide Feb 4 2010)

• Job Search Shakeup: Monster to Buy HotJobs for $225 Million

  Yahoo! sells off job search site and strikes new ad deal. (SE Watch Feb 4 2010)

• Google to Compete Against Apple Again?

  Is Google preparing to launch its tablet PC that would go up against the Apple iPad? (SE Journal Feb 3 2010)

• Another Googler Joins the Obama Administration–Now We’ve Got a Foursome!

  Sumit Agarwal, who was head of Google’s mobile product management, has become the deputy assistant secretary of defense for outreach and social media (BoomTown Feb 3 2010)

• 50 Ways To Lose Your Link

  Julie Joyce on link building (SEO Chicks Feb 2 2010)

• Google News Allows You To “Star” News Stories

  When a user stars a story Google alerts you to significant updates by putting the headline in bold, so you can get more info (SE Land Feb 2 2010)

• Why Coming In Second Can Be A Good Thing

  The search engines are different in Europe (Bas van den Beld, SE Land, Feb 2 2010)

• Google Plans Store for Online Business Software

  Google Apps May Get Its Own App Store (SE Land Feb 2 2010)

• Google: A recent improvement for Arabic searches

  It is easy to forget to separate words in Arabic (Google Blog Feb 2 2010)

• Spotify revamps recommendation engine

  Dig deeper into the Spotify music catalogue (techradar Feb 5 2010)

• Understanding Google Insights: You Can’t Estimate Traffic with It

  Google Insights is an awesome tool for tracking and comparing trends. (SE Journal Feb 5 2010)

• Bing with Enhanced Cooperation with Facebook on Search

  First, we have deepened our joint work together on web search to provide even more compelling experiences to Facebook users with Bing. (Bing Feb 5 2010)

• Apple CEO Steve Jobs Says Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Pledge Is BS

  Make no mistake, they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, Jobs says. (Google Watch Jan 31 2010)

• Google Opens Up Its Social Search

  Google announced last week that its social search experiment, which it opened up for limited use last year, is now more widely available. (ResearchBuzz Feb 1 2010)

• Google Squared improved. Perhaps not.

  Google Squared has a new design to better handle queries looking for a single thing, like a specific president or a particular breed of dog. (P Bradley Feb 1 2010)

• Google Chrome Cracks 5% Share as It Creeps Up on Firefox, IE

  Google’s Chrome Web browser continued to gain market share through the first month of 2010, garnering 5.2 percent of the worldwide browser market (Google Watch Feb 1 2010)

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