Online News Squared ™

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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“NOTE: We sell steamcleaning equipment and don’t sell our domain!!” That’s a note from the owners of Dutch manufacturer Knol on their site today, a day after Google launched its Wikipedia Wannabee “Knol” at knol.google.com. The knol.com note is in English; the rest of the site, Dutch. A quick Babel Fish translation seems to say, [...]

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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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Adrian and crew add two new cities (Charlotte and Philly) to  microlocal data emporium Everyblock. One of the inaugural members of the Adrian Holovaty Cloning Lab at Northwestern ruminates on what might be next, halfway through his incubation period. A couple Mama T cheap shots for good measure. Coming next, toilet paper rationing? And what [...]

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Nifty new Facebook application from the gang over at The TakeAway lets you buy and trade stock in potential VP candidates. Here. Google Snooze? “[W]hile news organizations continue to worry about what Google is doing to their business, the company is far from achieving the kind of dominant position in news that it has in [...]

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