reality

If you buy into the concept, we're officially another step closer to the complete Googlization of reality: In May, Google searches accounted for 68.29 percent of all US searches, and 87 percent of search in the UK, according to Hitwise. In France, Google runs 90 percent of the search show.

When a company receives money, you've got to consider questions of "how much" and "who from" to figure out what sort of attention it's owed.  In the case of broadband service provider Open Range Communications, the answers are "a lot" and "a branch of the U.S. government."

The latest round of rumors about Google Health received mention in the Wall Street Journal, which could mean the service may be near an opening.

Given the hue and cry about Yahoo!'s expected layoffs and its less than perfect market performance in Q4, the word about the possible bid by Microsoft had already been in the air, which has now been translated in to a reality. Would the deal eventually materialize or not?

For years many of us in the advertiser camp have yelled about the fact that vendors like Google AdWords lump domain traffic in with "search" traffic without giving you much control over the situation. A lot of this was justifiable yelling - but as with much about the content networks (and stuff that should be in the content network but was in the past classified as search), today's reality seems to have improved.

The NYTimes is running an op-ed piece about how using SEO techniques they are dredging up information on people that is out of date, and also inaccurate, or was updated later on, but does not show up as a correction on the persons Google query.

Less than a week after the launch of MySpace News, Reuters reports on a planned political show, “Independent,” for the social news site.

MySpace is once again diving into American politics as they have partnered with famed TV producer Mark Burnett to launch "Independent", a political reality show that is focused on finding the next "great" politician.