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It can’t be easy for Yahoo!, the Internet’s most durable portal, to play Pepsi to Google’s Coke. But if Yahoo! continues to fall further behind Google in ad sales, the company may find itself stuck a perennial second–or worse. With its stock down 36% last year and ad sales failing to keep up with Google’s, [...]

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Way back in 1993, when the Web was still young, Bill Fisher got his hands on a particularly attractive address: www.beer.com. He later sold it to Labatt Breweries of Canada for an undisclosed sum (somewhere in the seven digits, he says). Full article

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The bidding started at $300,000 and blasted through the seven-figure mark before settling at $1.8 million. No, this wasn’t Sotheby’s–nor was the object d’art a Picasso. This battle was for the URL Seniors.com. Full article

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The web as we know it was invented by a British academic working in Switzerland. Is a Nordic academic working in Britain about to redefine it forever?
Frode Hegland, a researcher at University College London, wants to change the basic structure of information on the net. Full article

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Google’s share price continues to reach all-time highs. Recently it hit $518.84 with the announcement of a new partnership with marketing software maker Salesforce.com. Google, the #1 search engine, seems to defy every Internet law of gravity. But one question arises with each subsequent record-high share price: is it possible for Google to get any bigger? Full article

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In 1989, at the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, Berners-Lee first proposed a “global hypertext project” to be known as the World Wide Web. He wanted researchers like himself to be able to easily and automatically combine their knowledge in a Web of hypertext documents. Full article

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If the U.S. Air Force is ever ordered into a real cyberwar with a foreign country or computer-savvy terrorist group, the 100-plus citizen cybersoldiers at the Air National Guard’s 262nd Information Warfare Aggressor Squadron will boast an advantage other countries can’t match: They personally built the very software and hardware they’re attacking. Full article

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Before you answer that question, consider that “Jimbo” is Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, the most visited reference site on the Internet and the second most visited domain after a Google search. The success of Wikipedia should give us pause before dismissing latest challenge to seemingly unbeatable Google. Full article

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