Google launched their official iPhone Translate App with voice input for 15 languages, their official blog reported . “The new app accepts voice input for 15 languages, and–just like the web app–you can translate a word or phrase into one of more than 50 languages,” the blog noted. “You can also listen to your translations spoken out loud in one of 23 different languages.” Click to read the rest of this post…

Google has a special logo up today on all Google properties for the author who wrote Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

Yahoo has just announced that they’re about to launch a new version of BOSS with a fee structure based on query volume. (The initial version launched in 2008 was free, and a fee structure for high volume use was first talked about in 2009).

No stranger to controversy, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis threw down a gauntlet at his “content farm” competitors, arguing they’re polluting the web and angering Google, to the detriment of searchers and their own companies. Calacanis made his remarks during an “Ending The… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Confession is now not just what you do in church, there is an iPhone app for it! Scroll through the App Store and you can find it – but you do not actually get pennance from your phone. The app created by Little i Apps, LLC can be used on iPhones and iPads

You Should… And Now You Can. Finally, a better way to track the ROI of your campaigns on the world’s most popular social network

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Demand Media & Being “The Best Click” On Google Demand Media’s success? Listening to what people want and generating great content to show..

I spotted a thread on a fairly morbid topic – death of a loved one. The thread is at Google Web Search Help where a brother said her sister recently died and they want to find some of her search history via Google

A question I get asked all the time is “what’s the future of search?” Everyone wants to know what’s coming next. I mostly tend to answer that search has become so ubiquitous that it’s becoming part of nearly everything we do and we probably won’t always recognize..