Yahoo has made some purchases that many wondered why they were doing it. Many guesses... I am starting to see something in the works. Yahoo now has a rival map service that is like MSN and Google and they are pushing the use of their API's. Yahoo bought UpComing.org and now guess what? There is a web 2.0 application merging Yahoo Maps beta, UpComing and Flash 8.0. MashUpcoming.com http://www.MashUpcoming.com Here are some properties Yahoo bought: Flickr UpComing.org Konfabulator ...

For those of you who pay attention to the page rank (like I do... it entertaining!) know that it is not updated to much and it not why your page comes in before another one. The link is a good read. What I found WAY more interesting is that someone mentions creating a non-search engine that is a collection of links (a post made by hugo guzman) to gage the worthiness of a web page. That might work as much as Wikipedia seems to work. http://www.wikipedia.org MY personal experiment on S...