Following their new computer to phone calling service Google have launched a new beta feature for Gmail users, called priority inbox. It ranks your email according to what you read. Click to read the rest of this post.

In a research done by Nordic eMarketing in cooperation with the eNewsPR network journalists are fond to use less than 2.5 keywords most of the time. In the same research Nordic eMarketing found that French Journalist are lazier than the English when searching for content and Scandinavian journalists are likelier to venture outside of their ccTLD and use .COM or other ccTLD endings when searching for content through their preferred search engine.

It's been a busy week over at Digg and the changes just keep on coming. It began with the public release of the new Digg, which I happened to like, but many did not. The loudest noises are coming from Digg's old guard and it's not surprising since the new Digg is designed to allow a wider variety of users to rise to the top, not just the dedicated few. Digg founder Kevin Rose responded to many of the complaints in his blog this week.

As you know, people from all over the world use Delicious. Although our interface is still English-only (thinking about new languages for the roadmap but nothing concrete yet), you'll see that our bookmarks, tags and comments appear in many different languages. Today, we have a brief note to our Australian users that sign into Delicious with a Yahoo! account. You guys have been selected for a dry-run of the initial integration of Delicious and Yahoo! Messenger .

Searching through the entire online world is already something we do, everyday. How about searching through your own personal online world? Y Combinator has just just come out with something very cool that will allow you to do just that. Meet Greplin.

The US Open is heating up on Yahoo! Search. This week we are launching the US Open Shortcut to help you find the information you want when you search for the championships. Whether you're a dedicated fan or just want to check out Maria Sharapova 's outfit, simply search for ' US Open ' or your favorite player. You will find real-time scores and schedule of the day, news, photos and tweets. Did you know many tennis players love to tweet?

Facebook has launched a " Universities on Facebook " page to "help students and campus organizations discover how to take full advantage of Facebook's features to publicize events, distribute content, and foster community and school spirit." The company has also acquired an interesting search patent for ranking based on click frequency. With regards to the suit from the guy who claims to own a majority stake in Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg's lawyers are quoted as saying ,

Hot on the heels of the organic results integration in the US, Yahoo & Bing both announced today that now is the time to begin preparing your paid search accounts for the final integration, in which Microsoft Adcenter will power all paid search ads on Yahoo! Search in the U.S. & Canada. Click to read the rest of this post.

Google has an interesting post up today on its official blog, outlining its efforts in growing display advertising. Within this outline are five what Google calls "key principles guiding our future product innovations in this area." In short, these principles are: making life more efficient, total revenue management, more insight and control, betting on openness, everything is going to be "display". To me,

It's summertime and the livin' is easy, but at Yahoo! Search we've been busy fielding queries about everything from Kermit the Frog to Zsa Zsa Gabor . Early in the month US users showed interest in Ramadan , the month of fasting which began on the evening of the 10 th . Searchers looked for the meaning of Ramadan, activities for children, and even "Ramadan text messages." Searchers on Yahoo! also looked for biography, commercials for Ben Quayle ,