Thanks to Google’s unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition.

Thanks to Google’s unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition. But while Yahoo, Ask, and now Cuil duke it out for whatever scraps of market share they can get, specialized search engines are aggressively trying to outwit the master.

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• Several states have opened antitrust investigations into a cooperative advertising pact struck last month by Google and Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiries.
• Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt is quickly establishing itself as one of the most press-friendly attendees at Sun Valley’s annual gathering of high-powered media and technology types.
• Yahoo Rejects Microsoft, Icahn Bid to Split Company (Update1)
• “Scarcity brings clarity,” says Marissa Mayer, the blonde cyborg who runs Google’s search engine
• The Most Stupid Web Feature of 2008
• Google has been quietly laying off staff and up to 10,000 jobs could be on the chopping block according to sources.
• Even Google is Focusing on Costs. You have to focuse too.
• Google has released a new web site to help simply and centralize information about voting locations and voter registration.
• Henry Blodget, the former stock analyst who kicks himself every day for still being a Yahoo shareholder, notes that Yahoo spent $37 million on advisory fees in the third quarter.
• Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. will start a high-profile advertising partnership by early October, even if federal regulators haven’t yet approved the deal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday.

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