This week design of Google’s search results page had earned U.S. patent protection, it brings the sum number of patents that were held by the search giant to three dozen.

Design Patent No. 533,561, was awarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday, and covers “the ornamental design for a graphical user interface” as shown in numerous screen shots of the Mountain View based company’s search results pages.

The screen shots describe lists of the Google’s search results, with blocks of news related and even sponsored advertising links at the top. A graphic of the word Google, speaks out with multiple o’s corresponding to the number of pages of search results returned, is centered at the base of the page.

San Francisco – Today Google carries lot of brilliant minds, but even these brilliant employs have difficulty in knowing how much their stock options are really worth.

For the purpose of simplifying the task the company plans to create a new online market, which would display how much sophisticated investors are eager to pay for the company’s options. This shift of transferable stock options is likely to schedule during forthcoming spring.

“We think this would be very valuable in helping our employees understand what they own right from the beginning,” said Dave Rolefson, Google’s equity and executive compensation manager.

Google is very happy on release of new beta version of Google Patent Search; this makes it easy to search the full text of U.S. patent mass and look for patents that impress you. You could further explore your self at www.google.com/patents or http://www.google.com/advanced_patent_search to search by criteria, including patent number, filing date and inventor. You can also view images of original patents online.

This natural extension of Google’s mission is just to make this public domain government information accessible to all users using Google search technology. It has been started with over 7 million patents granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and it also look forward to expand its coverage over time.

Fox Pan American Sports and MSN partnering up on a Hispanic online sports site http://msn.foxsports.com/fse.

The two companies added that the site “would become the primary Spanish language sports content destination on the MSN network and would also provide its users with extraordinary access to Fox Sports en Espol’s and Fox Sports Latin America’s year round lineup of the most significant sporting events around the globe.”

Recently Philips has collaborated with MSN Movies to offer the prime online movie trailer in Ambilight. To make things even better these trailers are offered in HD with Ambilight backlighting.

Visitors to Ambilight online experience on MSN Movies would provide two to three new trailers added every week from chief Hollywood studios including 20th Century Fox, Universal, New Line Cinema and few others. This is a three month trial in U.S. but might be expanded internationally in the future.

This launch also agrees with the production of the one millionth Ambilight television.

Santa Clara, California – WebEx, provider of businesses applications on-demand had developed a new plug-in for search engine, Yahoo Messenger! designed to enable instant messaging users to “co-browse” and view websites on same time. The free plug-in provides the ability for online shopping, party planning and picture viewing. The new WebEx co-browsing plug in could be easily assessed from Plug-in Picker within the Yahoo!

With the free plug-in, Yahoo! Messenger opened up its platform for third party developers to make add-on applications for further personalizing the end user’s experience. WebEx developed the co-browsing plug in for the purpose of enabling Yahoo! Messenger’s global users to interact during live web searches. WebEx provides on-demand collaborative applications to individuals, small businesses and for enterprise organizations.

WebEx is currently based in Santa Clara, California and has regional headquarters in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Recently Yahoo! through a joint venture with 7 Network in Australia have partnered (54/49%) with Telecom New Zealand Ltd. The statement clearly discloses that Yahoo is aggressive towards a move to grab global market share. Its move into India and the roll-out of YSM in the country is underway at the moment also.

ABC News is now a part of Yahoo! News premiere video content partner by the expansion of their current deal.

Now ABC News would double the amount of content it gives to Yahoo! News as well as include clips of breaking news, additional features and interview like video segments from “Good Morning America” and “20/20”.

This deal extends its relationship between ABC News and Yahoo! News that began in September 2005 and provides ad-supported video free to Yahoo! users. ABC News video would further continue to be integrated all through Yahoo! News – including its front page and other particular sections on the site and pertinent story pages but would be showcased more prominently.

The new yahoo search market platform Panama has opened its service to new company advertisers. Yahoo’s goal with Panama is to make a more efficient and user friendly system for advertisers to maintain their accounts on the Web site. The plan also features test campaigns, organize budgets and track progress for advertisers.

The company has transformed thousands of search advertising customers in the U.S to a new platform on regional basis. Yahoo said after this changeover in U.S. it would begin to roll out the plan in other countries as well.

Despite a falling NASDAQ on Tuesday, Yahoo! shares closed up 1% at $26.75 and the stock had traded between $22.65 to $43.66 in the last 52 weeks.

A primary feature of Panama has Yahoo! ranking advertisers based on their “quality score” with their maximum keyword bid. Quality is normally based on factors like click-through rates.

IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are partnering to offer a free data search tool for businesses; it is an idiosyncratic move challenging Google Inc. and also the other search specialist in this blooming market.

More broadly, though, Yahoo and IBM expect their partnership will shake up the field of “enterprise search”, in this biggest providers such as, Autonomy Corp. and Norway-based FAST are seeing forays from business software kings such as Microsoft Corp. Oracle Corp. and SAP AG.

Yahoo would focus on the Web search aspect of the equation and not on the venture enterprise search. Indeed Yahoo is only interested in using the IBM deal to make a stronger brand in business environments and get people using Yahoo Web search at work more often.