It is true that Internet has drastically grown in the past few years and has become more complex, but Search Engines are still on the verge of evolution. In order to make search engines more reliable information resource for users, Microsoft launched Bing in June, 2009.

The news is out that Google has acquired AdMob, the mobile display ad service provider for $750 million in stock. The acquisition will help Google in having better and wider control over mobile advertising.But, there is another news reported by TechCrunch that Google has also acquired Gizmo5 for $30 million.

Google has launched Google Dashboard that will provide users a simple view of the data stored in Google Account at one location.

In the past 11 years, Google has taken many steps to protect the privacy and data of its users. It has a Privacy Center dedicated to tell users about security measures, a Data Liberation Front that tells about easy moving of data in and out of Google & Internet-based advertising to have a control on ads you see.

The MSN Homepage is out with a new, streamlined and less cluttered look. While marking another milestone in the history, the MSN team has finally succeeded in making a page that is easier to navigate and is filled with services that web users need on daily basis. You can now get information about online videos, sports, lifestyle, news, entertainment and Bing search experience all-together on the MSN Homepage.

The Google voice search has matured quickly by traveling across the world and developing a better understanding of the U.S., U.K, Australian and Indian accent. Taking a step further, the Google has now made the voice search available for Nokia S60 Phones in China. The best part is that the phones will now understand the commands given in Mandarin Chinese.

Yahoo! has filed a document with SEC saying that Microsoft failed to finalize the deal by October 27, 2009. Although, there is a statement in the document saying that progress was being made.

Here's the extract:

Google has now officially rolled out the new feature that will help in finding millions of songs through the same Google music search interface.

With every music-related query on the music search, you will also get links to an audio preview of that song on Google SERPs. All this is possible because of Google's collaboration with online music players Lala, iLike and MySpace. Lala and MySpace will also provide the links to buy the songs.

Google team is conducting a new experiment named Google Social Search on Google Labs that will take social networking to the next level. The official Google Blog is also talking about the experiment that will help you in finding more relevant public content and that too from your broad social circle.

With Apple releasing product refreshes and Microsoft releasing Windows 7, how could Google remain behind in announcing updates. After introducing 3D building maker this month, Google has now come up with 4 slight changes in Maps, Custom Search and many more fields.

Here's an insight:

1. A new version of AdWords API has been introduced that include asynchronous calls, location extensions preview, keyword and placement ideas.