Search Engines: Release DOJ Data

After all, as Cory Doctorow et al at BoingBoing point out, if there is no personally identifiable information in the data, there is no reason to keep it from being posted for review.

Google Toolbar Adds New Tools

Another beta version of Google's Toolbar arrived on the company's servers, just waiting for download and testing by its user base.

EBay and Super Bowl Economics

The confounding success of the famous Super Bowl economic indicator, where the winning team's conference seems to correlate with the coming year's economy, is spilling over into other areas of voodoo economics. This time it's reversed as eBayers are predicting the outcome of America's time-honored obsession based upon the going price of each team's merchandise.