Google Suggestion Tool

From the Google labs: Google Suggest may finally give AdWords advertisers an easier way to get insightful data that Overture has for some time now on keyword suggestion. While it doesn't give exact search numbers (rather it provides the amount of results) it does give a quicker and more intuitive interface to the Adwords keyword suggestion tool. This BETA may not be intended for that use, but that's how I'm going to take advantage of it!

Google News Goes International

Google News has expanded to include seven new international versions of the popular news service to provide articles tailored to the inhabitants of Argentina, Chile, French Canada, Mexico, Austria, and two variations for Switzerland.

Yahoo! to Test Desktop Search

CNET News reports that Yahoo! plans to test a rival version of desktop search in January, that will allow users to include personal files such as emails, Word documents, PDFs and more. Differing from Google's current offering, this service will also allow searching for music and image files on a user's machine and eventually will contain support for archival and retrieval of Yahoo! Messenger conversations. The article also mentions that MSN still are working on their own similar service, something they have been speaking on for some time now, but have yet to produce.