The Most Stupid Web Feature of 2008

It’s absolutely Google’s SearchWiki. It lets you to remove an entire site from your life. Wow Just Wow.

• “Scarcity brings clarity,” says Marissa Mayer, the blonde cyborg who runs Google’s search engine
• 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.
• Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.
• Thanks to Google’s unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition.
• Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt sat down unexpectedly Thursday for 75 minutes with a dozen journalists to give their impressions on the state of the technology community and Google’s place in it.
• Google have opened up their ad serving tool Google Ad Manager to everyone. Google Ad Manager is very similar (nearly identical) to the OpenX ad manager software.
• Are Office Live and Windows Live Microsoft’s response to Google?
• Google is developing visual crawling software that can be used for facial recognition and scene analysis

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