Most Important Thing that Happened...
July 23, 2007
...while I was gone was clearly Google's declaration of interest in bidding for spectrum. NYT story here.
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Reader Jeremy Writes: [Yahoo] couldn't get off the crack pipe...the Paid Inclusion model. It failed *everywhere*. [It] still can't get off the crack.
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