The avalanche of news last weekend was triggered by the story that Opensource Obscure, a Second Life resident from Italy, had his profile suspended by Google+ because his name "violated community standards.
At the same time, it was noted by Opensource Obscure that the Lab was beta testing something called "social profiles", which finally makes a use out of the otherwise problematic web profiles that exist within the official viewer 2 release.
It was created with an OpenSource standard and uses the JSON interface. Live Search has released an add-on for Firefox, interesting since Firefox is a competitor to Microsoft's browser Internet Explorer.
Open Source Search Engines: Listings Update http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools-opensource.html As most readers know, Search Engine Watch concentrates primarily on developments in searching across the entire web.
