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The top 3 links on a search for World Cup in Google will give you all outbound links to other sections of Google. Smart business move, but not necesarilly a search engine. Maybe Fifa will rethink its partnership with Yahoo, if over 50% of searches around the world are being done through Google. They can’t [...]

My guess is no, and it will probably be phased out by 2007. Just like Apple was the first to phase out the floppy drive, IE, and the dial-up port.
The WebOS is coming to a theatre near you……
What are contextual ads around numbers going to be like?

I have not read anyone mentioning this, but isn’t this a huge win for FireFox?

Matt Mullenweg, on the latest Om and Niall podcast, said that Web 2.0 is a vector for spam. In a lot of ways I totally agree with him and many of the larger companies that are benefiting from this spam are the same companies that are making web 2.0 tools that allow spammers to thrive. [...]

Eric Schmidt from Google’s Press Day:
It’s possible that because of the success of search and these wiki type structures and so forth that experts and particularly expertise will transition in our lifetime from learned information to learning information. And curiosity will be how you establish your expertise. This is a big shift, for the learning [...]

I was reading about all the money Google’s employees are paying in capital gains which I’m sure has been the case with with apple’s as well, to the state of California. Apple and Google also pay huge amounts of taxes to the state on a company basis. In terms of figuring out creative write-offs, why [...]