Been underwater most of this week, and it looks to continue. But here are a few nuggets worth checking out:
Greg points to Amazon Zuggest, a Google Suggest/Amazon mashup. He also points to some interesting personal search work at Microsoft, courtesy Todd Bishop.
Rumors about Yahoo buying Flickr are getting to a boiling point, one source who pinged me (I can’t verify this) said it’s done deal at $20 million, $10 million now, $10 million on earn out. We’ll see….
Philipp reports that Mark Jen, famous for getting fired for blogging while at Google, is now at Plaxo.
Jon Udell is doing some interesting things with Google Maps. On Kuro5shin, some neat things with Google Print.
Technorati has launched “related tags” which is a cool idea. Weinberger reports.
Matt McAlister, who was employee #1 at the Standard, took the wraps off his personal blog and posts on “Why Google Isn’t What It Used to Be.”
SEW has a pointer to an article about a visit to Google India.
Via AdWeek, (SEW also notes this) Yahoo anticipates the end of its relationship with MSN (via Overture). We all knew this was coming.
Via Slashdot, a Threadwatch post noting that Google is cloaking its own pages, perhaps. This practice is banned by Google’s own TOS.