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What does Google search for? Over the past few months, the Web titan has been looking for new partners. It has teamed with Intuit to enable small-business owners to manage Google ad campaigns, partnered with eBay to offer "click-to-call" ads that connect online shoppers to sellers, joined with MySpace to supply the social network's search and advertising, and helped MTV distribute video clips with ads tacked...
...your car, buy bus tickets and check your children's school grades. More than 80% of taxpayers file their declarations online, wi-fi hot spots are ubiquitous - and free - and the nation's most famous start-up is Skype, the Internet phone titan, which was acquired last year by eBay for $2.6 billion. That amount is slightly more than the annual output of the entire Estonian economy 15 years ago. The economy, once a basket case, is now one of Europe's most dynamic, racing along at a 12% growth clip - faster than China. Estonia is one of only...
...every House seems to have: jazzercise, jazzercise, jazzercise. 5) Start hooking up with someone in the Quad to walk five extra miles each day. 6) Start hooking up with someone in the Mountaineering Club so you get to use their sweet indoor climbing wall. 7) Find leg warmers on eBay and take up inline skating. 8) Use your House gym, and then burn calories on the walk to UHS after you get tetanus from the WWII-era free weights. 9) Meet two dates at the same restaurant at the same time; burn calories running and fretting. But mostly fretting...
...Among the 1,103 Monty Python items up for bid last week on eBay were these ephemera inspired by the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail: talking action figures of King Arthur, sirs Bedevere and Robin and girlie-man Prince Herbert; Grim Reaper and killer Rabbit plush toys; "Holy Hand Grenade" and "French fart" T shirts; Black Knight "It's just a flesh wound" boxer shorts; and tickets to Spamalot, the hit musical that Eric Idle (and co-composer John Du Prez) confected from MP&HG nearly 30 years later...
...eBay has caused a revolution in the way that people acquire goods. Consumers have become SKU shoppers. They know exactly the stock-keeping unit that they want to acquire. They have figured out that if you know what you want to buy, you can acquire it at a lower and lower price. It's a wonderful cycle that allows you to have a higher standard of living on less money...