Yahoo! Claims Search Bragging Rights–For The Moment

The Yahoo! search engine announced yesterday "that its online search engine index now spans more than 20 billion Web documents and images, nearly double the material scanned by rival Google Inc.," the Associated Press reported. Yahoo! claims they’ve indexed 20.8 billion "objects," meaning documents and images compared to Google’s 11.3 billion objects. This sort of…

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Business Podcasting

The Twin Cities Business Journal devotes most of the front page of their current issue to a story on business podcasting. The excellent piece by staff writer Nicole Garrison-Sprenger details how local radio stations are turning to podcasts as the medium of the future and includes some telling statistics: According to Newsday, "the amount of…

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Advergaming & Grand Theft Auto

AdAge.com has an interesting story from last week on the impact that the Grand Theft Auto video game controversy will have on the new in-game advertising industry. AdAge.com says that product placement within games–"advergaming"–currently a $180 billion market, is expected to grow to $800 million by 2009. The article airs worries that the advergaming market…

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Only Men Use Online Maps?

Playing off the sterotype of men adamantly refusing to ask for directions, Hitwise touted the fact that we are prefectly happy to ask websites for directions.

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