Morning Monday Readers, We here at Taptu love a good bit of fun to help through the weekend, and this weekend was a real treat as we had the awesome local graphic artist Mr Penfold (www.penetpaper.com/ @mrpenfold)(and also SQ Team Member @deadedpixl younger brother) drop by to help spruce up our off-white walls. Thanks so…

Google today announced some interesting new features with their mobile search that include voice search with location-based results, great integration with QR barcodes (which we love!) and an augmented reality search based on your location called ’93Google Goggles’94.’a0 Separately, Google announced their entrance into the real-time search market on the desktop web. Google’s added attention…

Today Yahoo finally made its deal with Microsoft public.’a0 Under the new agreement, Microsoft will now power all Yahoo searches and Yahoo will become the sales force of the two firms’ advertising customers.’a0 Additionally, Yahoo will continue to focus on building customer-facing portals and Internet destination sites. So, in effect, Yahoo has abandoned any type…

Since the rise of Twitter and the associated “real-time web”, much attention has been paid to how real-time search could perhaps pass conventional search results in usability and relativity.’a0 I’ll leave this debate to the blogosphere and social media anthropologists, but I do want point out one fact: searching Twitter on the mobile platform leaves…