Here is our weekly wrap-up of Internet search and search engine industry oriented headlines.

Search is going mobile. The number of people accessing the web on their mobile phone is skyrocketing and searching on your mobile or cell phone is different than searching on your computer: The screen is smaller and typing can be a hassle. To make your mobile searching fun and easy we present five great tools for mobile web search.

If you have an iPhone, you have probably already seen our Top 5 iPhone search apps article. But whether you are surfing the web from a regular cell phone, a smart phone or a web enebled PDA, searching is bound to be important to you. The five tools presented here, work on all platforms.

This week an Italian court sentenced three Google executives to six months in prison for allowing users to post a video on YouTube in 2006.

Another week has passed in the world of search engines, and there are no surprises: Google has again got most of the attention. It seems Europe has decided that Google has to be disciplined.

Google has added a local search option to its search option panel. The Nearby option only works for google.com searches in English.

State of Search is a new blog covering the search engine scene, focusing on articles relevant to the industry, search engine marketing and social media.

Most search engines and all of the “big three” of search — Google, Yahoo and Bing — store several kinds of private data related to searches. Startpage and its EU brand Ixquick has long been among the search engine industry’s leaders when it comes to protecting your privacy. These services do not record the IP addresses of legitimate users and abolished the use of Unique ID cookies already in 2006. They now take privacy one step further and offer anonymous browsing of your search results through a proxy service.

The latest search engine news.

This week Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission.

The Google/China controversy has got a new chapter. The cyber attacks have been traced back to two Chinese schools.