It was a light news week because of the Thanksgiving holiday.

• Google releases the Google Search app for the iPad. Reviews were positive:
• Why Google’s Search App Is Its Best iOS App By Far (ReadWriteWeb)
• Google’s iPad App: Almost Chrome and Trouble for Apple (TIME TechLand)
• Google just used it’s Search app to sneak most of Chrome OS on to the iPad (The Next Web)
• The Facebook Phone: It’s finally real and it’s name is Buffy (All Things D)
• Ex-Googlers launch recommendation engine Stamped, with help from Google Ventures (VentureBeat)
• In some virtual worlds, the thrill is gone (BusinessWeek)
• Black Friday E-Commerce Spending Up 26 Percent To A Record $816M; Amazon Most Visited Retailer (TechCrunch)
• eBay buys Hunch (All Things D)
• Steve Jobs and NeXT: Rare PBS Documentary circa 1986 (brain pickings)
• Groupon Shares Plunge Below IPO Price 3 Weeks After Offering (BusinessWeek)