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Yahoo! breathing down Google's neck with book indexing and blog search
Yahoo! never sleeps. They've announced a partnership with the Internet Archive on the Open Content Alliance which will scan and index printed materials a la Google Print. They've put a bit of a twist on it, though, by making the program opt-in (unlike Google's opt-out strategy which got it—justly or otherwise—sued by the Authors' Guild) and making it open to any search engine. Brad Hill's commentary on the subject is, as usual, insightful.And in a wholly unsurprising news, Business Week's Stephen Baker is reporting that early next week Yahoo! is going to announce its own blog search offering, hot on the heels of Google's own functional-but-uninspiring Blog Search debut last month.
Via the Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog and the Social Software Weblog.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Elliott Back said 6:31PM on 10-03-2005
Not true. The Yahoo sponsored OCA is only interested in opt-in and public domain works, while Google is trying to index everything on the planet. Also, this so-called Yahoo blog search isn't announced or even here yet!
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Jordan Running said 6:35PM on 10-03-2005
Um. That's exactly what I said, Elliott.
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