Google may own well over 50% of the search market, but there are still those who are willing to support other engines. A group of companies and individuals recently proved this by giving $6 million in funding to ChaCha, a “smart search engine powered by human intelligence.”
Spock Mind Melds With $7 Million
A search engine company with a sci-fi name and a bare-bones website “received $7 million in a Series A funding round from Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures” earlier this week. The company, known as “Spock,” describes itself as “the world’s largest people search engine.”
Pixelotto – Million Dollar Homepage v2
I like Pixelotto.com, Alex Tew’s followup to his Million Dollar Homepage.
A $2.5 Million Super Bowl Proposal
One of the blogs I’ve recently added to my blog roll is Joe Morin’s Travels and I noticed a post he made about some kind of marriage proposal during the Super Bowl he’s going to be promoting.
“Gears Of War” Reaches 1 Million Mark
The new game by Microsoft “Gears of War” has now sold 1 million copies in 2 weeks according to the company. The game, which is played on, the Xbox 360 has been in high demand.
Google To Hold $200 Million In YouTube Deal
The rumor that Google was setting aside $500 million for their deal with YouTube is false. Its only $200 million. CEO Eric Schmidt previously denied the rumor that Google would use the money to fend off any lawsuits regarding copyright infringement.
A Million-Attendee Event
This week, the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission hosted a webcast from Jamestown, Virginia. They worked with The History Channel to create a webcast aimed at school children to teach about the first permanent English settlement in America. The event was broadcast by satellite on television, but was also available over the Internet. According to news accounts, the audience was estimated at more than one million viewers.
Blogosphere Cracks 57 Million Mark
Technorati’s blog tracking system has found 100,000 blogs were created each day in the third quarter of 2006, and 55 percent of all blogs were active enough to have been updated with a new post at least once every three months.
Internet Now Serves 100 Million Websites
The World Wide Web was created as a mechanism for scientists to post text and images, and share them with colleagues. Keep that in mind the next time you visit sites with Flash navigation, embedded videos, sound clips that play when the site loads, and advertising on display.
Confirmed: 100 Million Daily YouTube Streams
When YouTube announced this summer that they had surpassed the 100 million video streams per day mark, the media picked it up and ran with it while skeptics sat back in disbelief – a disbelief that can still be found in the blogosphere. comScore recently released a report confirming YouTube’s numbers.