According to PaidContent.org blog search engine Technorati has raised $7.6 million in its third round of funding, according to an SEC filing, picked up by PE Week Wire.

Meanwhile, according to Om Malik, Feedster, the San Francisco blog search engine has raised a new round of funding, mostly internal and is about to announce a new president.

Sources say the amount of funding is in seven figures – between $1 and $5 million, says Om.

Lifehacker has a “how to” on finding good podcast content.

IT.com is a new specialist vertical search engine focussedo on the IT space.

This is an interesting mash-up which puts a new front end on Flickr. Worth a look.

PaidContent report that Google Video is rolling out country-specific sites in Europe. The idea is to make the content more appealing to local audiences by localisation – and this, despite the rather disappointing (by Google’s rather cosmic standards) take-up in the US.

Mashup has barely become a word and it has its own conference: Mashup Camp. Being held in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, this is actually the second annual event – plus there’s a blog, a wiki and a “mashup university”.

More web sleuthing has surfaced more evidence of the fabled Gdrive project by which Google was meant to get into the operating system game.

Yahoo! has launched Trip Planner, a site which uses Web 2.0 features to encourage travellers to score good vacation experiences. The company hopes that the money will come from travel sites needed the traffic.

The Inside AdWords blog talks about changes to the algorithm which will affect the way Google views landing pages. In future poor advertiser landing pages will be penalised by lower ranking for AdWords ads.

Matt Cutts from Google talks about how to make the Google crawler do what you want it to do.