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eBay Wants To Be The Yellow Pages

They have the phone component in place from their purchase of Skype, and now eBay wants all the listings it can get to be the online resource for local search.

Google Base Arrives

Google has opened up its massive server farms to host user-submitted content that it will index and make searchable. The company opened up Google Base to users today.

Internet Portals Reap Huge Profits From Ads

Massive demand for prime placement on sites like MSN, Yahoo, and AOL means rates have skyrocketed, advertisers have to plan out campaigns well in advance, and smaller niche sites are profiting from the overflow.

Spiders With Ears, Searching The Podcast Future

The potential as well as the rapid early adoption of the podcast has the Internet industry buzzing to the point that some media aficionados are singing the dirges of print and traditional radio. At the forefront of the phenomenon is WebmasterRadioFM, a company that is developing the kind of artificial intelligence capable of spidering mp3 files for indexing. Yes, spiders with ears.