Wikia (Jimmy Wales) is announcing a social-relevance search engine.

... I think he's wrong about this ...

Quoted: "If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really change the balance of power from the search companies back to the publishers," said Wales, chairman of San Mateo, California-based Wikia. "I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a likely outcome."

The $900M is paid over 3 years. Really, this deal is about replacing Yahoo search ads with Google's. Google will also have the right to place AdSense ads on member pages as well (even when no search occurs).

The $900M is really just a guaranteed minimum payment. Google will be revenue sharing advertising click-throughs with MySpace, just as they do with every other web site using AdSense. The difference here is that News Corp. gets an guaranteed minimum payment, so it can tout the value of the deal in the press (and show how smart they've been to purchase MySpace).

Quoted: Google has won a bidding war to provide search services and advertising to MySpace.com and other News Corporation sites.

Google Workplace found in the sandbox. What's that?

Quoted: New Service (AKA Workplace): Maybe this is the big one people have been waiting for; the one that will really kill Microsoft Office. At least, ...

Google buying search relevancy algorithm from 26 yr old Israeli!

Quoted: In general, while search firms continually tweak their offerings to help make their search results more relevant to their customers, they are constantly on the ...

Quoted: Krugle, which launches officially next month, indexes programming code and documentation from open-source repositories like SourceForge and includes corporate sites for programmers like the Sun Developer Network. The index will cover around 100 million pages of what company founder Ken Krugler terms the "technical web" -- high-quality technical pages for professional programmers. (By contrast, Google's index covers about 11 billion pages.)

Quoted: Though Amazon hired the well-respected search guru and beefed up its services, A9 has never really caught on among mainstream Web surfers. It ranked 27th among search engines used by U.S. Web surfers in December, representing 0.1 percent of total searches, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

"In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity," Sullivan said.

Amazon's Berman disagreed with criticism that the company has not been fully dedicated to search.

I think A9 has been offering Amazon.com discounts if you use their search engine a certain number of times each month. Something like 1%.

Quoted: Another new feature in Google Toolbar 4 Beta is the ability to create and label Web site bookmarks. Users need only click on the toolbar's ...