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...late August in Washington, and I'm miserable. Uncharacteristically miserable. I used to love August in Washington. The heat? I love the heat. The crowds? There are no crowds. Washington is empty. Congress is gone. The President is at the ranch. The Supreme Court is shut down. There are seven people left in the city, and our job is to make sure that the furniture doesn't get stolen while nobody's home. There's no traffic. You can park anywhere. It's perfect. It's paradise. Except for one thing...
...years this city didn't have a baseball team, and there was no suffering in August. No annual Red Sox collapse. No summer Cubs swoon. No pain...
Sure, they couldn't hit. So what? They could hit just enough to scratch and claw and steal a run to win. Literally, a run. At one point, in games decided by one run, they won 12 straight. And then it came. A complete July collapse, followed by an August swoon, a zombie death march. Thirteen straight one-run losses...
While Google is still the forerunner in search, with 36.5% of the queries, Yahoo! is a strong runner-up, with 30.5%, and MSN stands at 15.5%, according to comScore Media Metrix. In mid-August, Google announced that it plans to raise an additional $4 billion to fund its next round of growth. The Big Three are investing aggressively in search technology, and with their deep pockets, they are likely to remain the innovation and market-share leaders for some time to come. But a crop of new start-ups, mostly clustered in Silicon Valley and Seattle, offer a glimpse...
...Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Golnoush Niknejad, Logan Orlando and Elspeth Reeve