Google Gives Love To Europe, Open Standards

A couple of days after showing how deep their affection is for users finding the right privacy features in Google products, the company acknowledged the European Union for its acceptance of open standards.

Travel Search Sites Kayak, SideStep Connect

In the official press release, forms of the word "merge" are used four times, "purchasing" comes up once, and "acquire" and "buy" are nowhere to be seen.  Nonetheless, the bottom line is that Kayak.com secured a spectacular round of funding, and proceeded to take over SideStep.com.

Swisher: Yahoo Should Sell Search Marketing

With Yahoo being on the sidelines while Microsoft scooped up Viacom's graphical ad serving needs (and booted out DoubleClick in the process), Kara Swisher think Jerry Yang should make a sale.

Peas On Earth, Goodwill Toward Twitter

A couple of days ago something strange began happening on Twitter. Avatars of the people I follow began sporting peas. Peas in the background, in the foreground, pea pods, pea hats. And I'm all, "what's with the freakin' peas?"

Google’s End of the Year Zeitgeist

If you’re wondering what was popular in 2007, check out Google’s Zeitgeist for the year, where they list the fastest rising searches of the past 12 months.