Web search news for Oct.3-Oct.9: Ask Deals, YouTube, Google

I've got a long weekend of organizing my garage ahead of me....jealous? Well, before you get too green with envy, check out the Web search news from this past week.

• Ask Deals has launched with tons of discount bargains; just in time for holiday shopping.
• Hitwise shows that Google grabbed over 70% of all searches for September.
• Bing announced this week a new mobile search feature that actually lets you speak your search question. Cool!
• Whoa, Nelly! YouTube is streaming a full billion video views a day.
• MapQuest introduced a GeoRSS Embeddable Map that lets you share maps quickly and easily.
• Via Search Engine Watch, it looks like Microsoft launched an H1N1 site this week. You can check it out yourself at http://www.h1n1responsecenter.com.

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