Google and Yandex, which operate separate search engines in Russia, could find additional competition in the country. Reuters reports that the Russian government will launch its own search engine supported by a state-controlled telecom group Rostelecom. The engine is named after the Sputnik satellite. Reports suggest the Russian officials will require government agencies to use the search engine. Rostelecom is trying to hire developers from rivals to work on the search engine project, expected to launch in Q1 2014, reports Reuters.

South Korean security restrictions put in place after the Korean War limit Google's Maps and other services mainly because the government doesn't want the data to fall into the wrong hands, reports The New York Times. The government under President Park Geun-hye wants to ease some of the Internet regulations to encourage industry to innovate. The government will allow Google and other foreign companies to use Korea's maps beginning next year. There are other restrictions too.

Matt Cutts tells us about Google's view on guest blogs and links through a post by Eric Ward. Consider the site's age, editorial team, amount of original content, and whether or not the site has undesirable back-link profiles. Ward provides a few guidelines that could help marketers seek guest post opportunities. Read the article here.

Quantum entanglement is a process explained to link particles with no apparent physical connection between them. In May, Google opened the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab with help from quantum computing company D-Wave. D-Wave, which produces quantum semiconductor chips, claimed that its chips support entanglement. Until now it has been difficult to demonstrate. The first practical application has been developed for Google Glass to help distinguish between involuntary and intentional blinks.

Facebook is removing a privacy option that will prevent anyone using the site to hide from searches, per TechCrunch. During the next few months Facebook members using the privacy setting to avoid being searched by name will get a notification explaining the change and will need to confirm they understand the change before the privacy setting disappears from the options.

A Starbucks petition to get Washington, D.C. leaders to reopen the government and serve the people took center stage on the company's Web site. Starting Friday and continuing through the weekend, consumers can find a petition in every Starbucks store across America. The petition addresses three messages most Americans would like to send the good folks in Washington D.C. Starbucks will send the signatures collected online and in person to Washington on behalf of their customers.

The data management firm Identity Finder identifies a major security flaw Thursday in Google's Chrome browser, reports USA Today. The browser cache stores files from Web sites partly to speed display of Web pages on the next visit to the site, but researchers found that the cache will store names, email address, phone numbers, bank numbers and more without knowledge or consent.

Marketers have some rethinking to do. The encryption of organic keyword and referrer data by Google will influence major changes. Kevin Lee said marketers still have access to some keyword data, but the analytics programs that provided full keyword data based on the HTTP referrer will become essentially useless. Read the article here.

ThreatTrack Security Labs has identified that some Bing ads in specific regions are linking to sites known to infect users with malware. Redirects to a dynamic DNS service subdomain serve the malware, per The Next Web. The Rouge ads are related to YouTube. There are 25 infected domains, which Emil Protalinski lists.

Google will pay developers up to $3,133.7 for open-source software patches. The program applies to a collection of open-source projectsrelated to what Google calls Internet's fundamental infrastructure. They include the popular domain name server BIND, the cryptographic library OpenSSL, and the remote login software Open SSH, per The Washington Post.