One of the persistent complaints for the last year or so about Google is that it’s too powerful now — owning 45% to 60%+ of Internet search. To that end, next year will see the launch of several general-purpose search engines that seek to become the “Google killer.” The latest — like candidates running for [...]

Former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, is expected to be executed within the day as punishment for crimes against humanity after being convicted by the Iraq Special Tribunal in November. Politics and death penalty arguments aside, this is a ground breaking global event and is currently under smack dab in the middle of the radar on [...]

A recent study by Hitwise shows that Yahoo Answers is dominating the Answers Search Market Share by attracting 96.1% of the share of answers sites visits. Hitwise says that the Infosearch Demand Media owned Answerbad is 2nd, with 2% of the share and Windows Live QnA is ranked third, with 1%. More Yahoo Answers info [...]

Wendy Tanaka at Red Herring reports that, according to VentureWire, Digg.com has raised $8.5 million from two existing investors, Greylock Partners and Omidyar Network.

Found on Digg.com today: Someone donated $286,800 to Wikipedia Within the past few minutes the confirmed donations total went from $402,000 to $689,000. One contribution was by An anonymous friend on 2006-12-27 at 22:17:00 for the amount of $286,800. Hefty Christmas present for Wikipedia and with nearly 2,000 Diggs on a story linking to the [...]

Apple iTunes giftcards and new iPod owners led to a 413% rise in visits at iTunes.com on Christmas Day. Yours truly was an accidental visitor as my 12 year old niece begged me to show her how to download using her iTunes giftcards. Along the way, I feel compelled to add, I ran into a [...]

Google Operating System‘s Ionut Alex (who does not work for Google) gets all ‘Matt Cutts’ on some Google myths which have been making their way around the web for years. Here’s a snippet: Google Myths Google is spyware. “Spyware is software that reports on your activities or gathers personal information about you and sends it [...]

Since Google has stopped exposing the size of their indexed web documents on their homepage, it seems that different web users have been performing searches to try and figure out Google’s size. Some searches used to be “* *”, but according to Philipp, that search does not work anymore. Google Blogoscoped is trying to figure [...]

Even as search becomes all-but-synonymous with the Internet for many users, there’s a paradoxical and growing sense that it’s failing. We have incredibly high expectations for search but that’s partly because it has been very successful to date. Every quarter or so it seems a new, would-be David comes out to challenge Googliath. The newest [...]