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Search Engine X Too Powerful. Just Open Source It?
Skrenta explains what many of you already grasped about Google's growing power.
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A New Year’s Wish List
There were a lot of significant advances in 2006 in the digital realm. Google prospered, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and the Internet overtook newspapers in the hierarchy of information consumption. What does this year hold in store for the technological landscape?
Saddam Searches Flood Search Engines
As news of Saddam Hussein's execution made its way around the web (rather quickly), people flocked to the search engines looking for video, images, and any other pertinent information about the hanging.
Options, Bugs, Phones – Time For Macworld
The Macworld Conference & Expo starts next week in San Francisco, but the parade of Mac fandom led off by Steve Jobs' keynote will have negative news about stock option shenanigans, earnings restatements, and a daily diet of Apple bugs offsetting the positive Mac vibe.
The Demise Of The Scoop
Being first to a story when there were only three to six outlets in competition for a scoop meant a lot for the media of yore. Now that nearly anyone can be a bastion of insight and analysis in the time it takes to register a domain name and configure some blog software settings, the euphoria of Extra! Extra! Read All About It seems downright…
UFO Sightings To Orbit The Web
France's national space agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, will place information about some 6,000 reports of UFO activity online in early 2007.
