Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates — packed with announcement, alliance, disputes and axing down services or products, from Silicon Valley’s tech leaders like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Bing and others, as well as many more interesting Search Engine Optimization news from across the web…

Yahoo Mail Outage Affects One Million, Users Tweet In Anger
Yahoo Mail, one of the largest web-based email services, which boasts more than 250 million users worldwide, suffered a partial outage, and according to the company, at least one million users may have lost access… Read More

India’s Rediff.com Jumps Into Daily Deals Market With “Deal Ho Jaye!”
In an attempt to tap into the bubbling daily deals market, Rediff.com, India’s oldest Internet portal, last Tuesday jumped into the coupon-based on-line shopping arena by unveiling a group buying site dubbed as “Deal Ho Jaye!,” which works like newspaper classifieds, allowing customers… Read More

Google Talk Debuts Video And Voice Chat On Android Smartphones
Global search engine giant, Google on Thursday unfurled video chatting capabilities into Google Talk for Android smartphones, and unlike Apple’s Face Time, it works over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G, as part of version 2.3.4 of the mobile operating system… Read More

South Korean Police Investigating Google Over Location Data Collection Allegations
In a startling turn of events at Google’s Korean operations, South Korean police on Tuesday raided search engine giants Seoul office under suspicion to probe whether the search firm used its mobile phone advertising platform AdMob to illegally collect private data, officials said… Read More

Yahoo Appoints Jai Singh As Editor-In-Chief Of Yahoo! Media Network
Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc., on Monday announced that it has recruited Jai Singh, whose hiring from CNET Networks benefited The Huffington Post gain journalism credibility, as editor-in-chief for the Yahoo! Media Network, recruiting him from the Huffington Post Media Group… Read More

First Facebook App Coming For BlackBerry PlayBook
Hot on the heels of their BlackBerry Bold Touch announcement, and as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry World conference reeled to life Monday morning in Orlando, RIM announced a forthcoming dedicated Facebook app along with a video chatting application for the BlackBerry PlayBook, both due later this month… Read More

Google Tops Company-Reputation Poll As Facebook, Comcast Flounder
Global search engine behemoth Google, was crowned number one in a US poll measuring the reputations of America’s top companies, conducted by Harris Interactive on Monday. This year, we have a new most reputable company in America – Google… Read More

Microsoft’s Bing To Deliver Default Search, Map On Blackberry Phones
Software monopolists Microsoft has discovered a new tactics of partnering with its competitors–has made yet another friend in the mobile sphere: The Redmond Vole on Tuesday announced that its Bing has been crowned the default search and mapping application provider for RIM… Read More

Google “Voice Search” Feature Coming Soon To Google.com: Report
Are you tired of typing? Cheers! You can now voice in your search query without touching that keyboard! According to tech-site Mashable, search engine behemoth Google is reportedly testing the waters of “voice-activated search” with select users, and may even integrate the feature into the Google.com search engine once the experiment is complete… Read More

Facebook Gobbles Big Slice Of Online Display Ad Pie As Its Nearest Competitor: Report
Facebook, the world’s most popular social media outfit has been capturing endless media attention these days and for good reason–it is viewed as a new destination for marketer’s heaven. In other words, Facebook served up nearly a third of the 1.11 trillion display ads delivered to… Read More

Google Releases New Google Analytics Site Speed Tools
Improving site speed is crucially important, and search engine titan Google, which has an economic interest in making the web better because more time spent online means more ads clicked, has finally announced a new component that has been added to the new Google Analytics… Read More

Twitter Finally Snaps Up TweetDeck For Around $40-$50 Million
After being engaged in hectic negotiations for a few weeks now, it appears that the micro-blogging magnate Twitter has finally acquired TweetDeck, a popular third-party software application for using Internet social networking services, for around $40 — $50 million and an announcement could be made very soon, according to a report in TechCrunch… Read More

Google Gives Your Company Exposure With Free Interior Photography!
Do you own a restaurant, a super-store, but scarcely any customers? Do you wish to showcase your business to million of potential customers? Google has added a novel feature to its Places and Street View service that may deliver the exposure you desire: Google Business Photos… Read More