Online News Squared ™

An alliance of 30 newspaper companies affiliated with Yahoo has picked digital media pioneer and longtime Squared colleague (including, a couple times, boss) Michael Silver of Chicago as its first executive director. Silver will “begin developing new opportunities for the Consortium across the digital media landscape, as well as to grow the Consortium’s existing relationship [...]

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Number of web pages in the first Google index in 1998: 26 million. Number of web pages Google just surpassed: 1 trillion. Source: Official Google Blog. (Note: The Google index isn’t 1 trillion pages; that’s just how many unique URLs it’s now finding, but not necessarily indexing).

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+ Transitioning back from a week out of town on vacation (a curious undertaking on several levels for someone who is for the first time ever officially unemployed). + Google News going to get Dugg? TechCrunch says Google and Digg close to finalizing an acquistion. Here. + Star Tribune launches Data Center. NYT says it’ll [...]

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