Google has launched several new services in the past few weeks, such as Google Talk, Google Secure Access,Google Reader, etc. Yahoo, on the other hand, also launched two new service last week, one is Yahoo! Podcasts and another is Yahoo! News Search.

While Google has a dedicated search for blogs, Yahoo! makes sure their did not get left behind by launching Yahoo! Podcasts. This search engine enables you to search for any podcast in the Internet according to the keyword you typed in.

I just did a search using “Carlos Santana” to search for any podcast of the famous musician. The search was fast and I can actually listen to the podcast found right from the search result. Cool huh? For people who are using podcast, here is another way of getting visitors to your blog through search engine.

Besides Yahoo! Podcast, Yahoo! News Search is another latest service from Yahoo!. Well, this new search is like a combination of news, blog and image search in one place. I tried a search for “Yahoo podcast”, the result on the left was news talking about Yahoo Podcast, while on the upper right was result from blogs and just below it was the images related to Yahoo podcast.

To me, this new search is quite useful in some situation. Take for instance when you are searching for information for your project or assignment, you will need images and information, now Yahoo! News Search gives you all in one shot.