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Stories Discussed In The Show

• Google's Knol Launches: Like Wikipedia, With Moderation
  After six months of testing, Google has formally rolled out Knol, a service designed to let people create pages of knowledge on any topic they choose. While Google says Knol is not designed to compete with Wikipedia -- and there are good arguments to back this up -- I...
• Rumor: Google To Buy Digg For $200 Million?
  There are ways in which Digg is like YouTube: it's the "brand" in a competitive "social news" segment that also features Yahoo Buzz, AOL's Propeller, MySpace News, Reddit, Ask Big News and, by some counts, more than 80 others. Similarly YouTube was the "brand" in a crowded video segment when...
• What Happens After Google Buys A Company?
  Many people have posed the question: why does Google seem to often fail to efficiently integrate or develop companies and properties it has acquired? Early mobile social network DodgeBall is the most obvious example of a promising startup acquired by Google that has languished. But as TechCrunchIT points out, there...
• Yahoo Q2 Revenues Flat, No Help For Shareholder Meeting
  Analysts expectations were low and, depending on the analyst, Yahoo barely met or missed them. According to the press release, "Revenues were $1,798 million for the second quarter of 2008, a 6 percent increase compared to $1,698 million for the same period of 2007." Net income fell 18 percent. The...
• Yahoo Announces SearchMonkey Developer Challenge Winners
  Yahoo has announced the winners of the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge. The judges, including our very own Danny Sullivan, reviewed "hundreds of submissions" and selected five winners. The winners include: StumbleUpon for building the SU Infobar that shows you "website reviews and ratings," before you click on the search results in...
• Live QnA Adds Features & Firefox 3 Support
  The Live QnA blog announced that the Live QnA question and answer site has been updated with several feature and design releases. Here is a brief overview of those changes:...
• Google Enables Political Video Search With Speech Recognition, Showcases 3D Technology
  Google is introducing an Elections Search Gadget that allows users to search transcripts of political speeches and videos that appear on YouTube candidate channels. The speech recognition technology (also shared with Goog411) produces a transcript of the videos, which can then searched by users of the Gadget to find precise...
• YouTube Adding Geographic Search
  Tired of searching for "Paris" (France) on YouTube and mostly seeing video of Paris Hilton? A new geographic search feature (reported first by NewTeeVee) should take care of that. Video uploading users have been able to geotag videos on YouTube but not easily search for video by location. By contrast,...
• Are Google Maps good or evil?, News.com
• The Better Business Bureaus Rates Google As "Unsatisfactory"
  Google, the superbrand and top global brand is also listed on the Better Business Bureaus (BBB) list of businesses as having an "unsatisfactory record." The reason Google has this unsatisfactory rating from the BBB is because Google has failed "to respond to one or more complaints and or two or...
• Now Google Searches For "Educating" Not Safe For Family Viewing
  I feel bad for always seeming to pick on Google about showing inappropriate images in normal web search. But it's happened again. This morning at the Search Engine Roundtable, I explained that a search for [educating] returns a "teacher standing over a student holding a small rod, with the student's...