Google has added Audio indexing ability - called GAudi - that allows it to crawl videos and figure out what they are about. GAudi is currently in Google Labs, but will undoubtedly be improved and make long term changes to search moving forward.
wow, a pretty significant increase in online shopping according to this survey. i thought this one could give some ideas for angles to take in online marketing messages.
You weren't hoping for backyard privacy anyway were you? Google Earth will soon show even higher resolution images. Check out this article for details on the deal.
eBizMBA has released a list of the top 30 blogs as of August 2008 ranked by measures of inbound links (Yahoo Site Explore) Alexa Rank and unique monthly visitors from U.S. (based on Compete and Quantcast data).