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Google doesn't need them. In the past six months alone, the site has won a Webby (the online version of the Oscar) for technical excellence, set a new record for search engines by indexing a billion Web pages, and got tapped by industry giant Yahoo to become its default search engine (the one you're sent to automatically if Yahoo can't come up with the goods...
...Yahoo still has 10 times the audience, but Google consistently ranks first in customer satisfaction: 97% of users find what they're looking for most or all of the time. "You see people smile when they use it, like they've found something no one else knows about," says Danny Sullivan, editor of the online newsletter searchenginewatch.com...
Take, for instance, the new voice portals. These are being billed as the equivalent of Web portals--those gateway, one-site-fits-all Web addresses like Yahoo, Excite and Snap. Instead of sitting at a computer and tapping websites that serve as hubs for news, weather and sports updates, with voice portals you can request info over the phone...
Clark is critical of some of his Silicon Valley brethren who haven't been as generous, despite their multibillion-dollar net worth. He hopes his gift will spur other tech billionaires to action, particularly Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, who don't discuss specifics of any giving they may have done--and who Clark believes have been too frugal. "These guys actually ran the Yahoo servers out of Stanford," says Clark. "They should be giving something back. These guys are young, but they've got more money than me. Or take Larry Ellison; he should be doing more...
Wake up, Gary. The war is over, and you lost. Every other yahoo on the street is proudly advertising for Tommy Hilfiger, John Deere or the Boston Red Sox. At least Autowraps drivers get paid. "I'm making the choice to do with my car as I please," says flight attendant Billy Dulin, 33, as we tool around San Francisco in his Volkswagen Beetle. Dulin pockets $250 a month for a partial wrap pitching Lowestpremium.com car insurance...