This Week's Web Winners: What Goes Up Must Come Down
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With the stock market giving us heart palpitations, we went on a hunt for Web sites that might help us make sense of it all.  ___  ROGERS ECONOMICS  This wonkish Web site by economist and author R.
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Nick Halstead has posted the runners up in the PHP programming competition he conducted:   Finally we have a result, it has taken weeks of judging and lots of hard work. The scores are ready and today I will first announce the runners up from the Top 6. I will then tomorrow announce the 3rd place, then day after that second, you get the idea. The scoring was based upon a point system in which each judge had to rank the top 6 in order. The points from each judge were then compiled and the final scores calculated.   The project was to write a script that helped a user find the shortest "distance" between two words by replacing one letter at a time. The three that were the runners up were created by:   JB Maurice Fonk Rob Haynes   Come of the judges comments are also included in the post to get a feel for the thinking behind the rankings.
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Cables under the sea and pop tunes in space populate this week's brain buster. Do you have what it takes to be a true Geek News Champion? Pit your wits against this quiz. Correct answers are worth 10 points, some offer partial credit, and a few are really hard to miss. Ready? Then play on.1. Microsoft's "generous offer" to buy Yahoo last week has dropped from $45 billion to $41 billion (at press time). Why the sudden price cut?a. Competing bids never materialized b. Yahoo abandoned its online music service c. Microsoft shares dropped 10 percent since the bid was announced  d. Executives in Redmond Googled the phrase "logistical nightmare"Take the InfoWorld news quiz
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Time Warner pays to settle securities fraud charges. Also: The FCC says yes to wireless internet for airline passengers & hellip;.  Google wins trademark lawsuit against Geico & hellip;. and more.
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A look at the top stories this week.
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A new website lets you bet on the outcome of evolving news stories. But it's for bragging rights only -- no real money changes hands.
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Investors are finally facing the facts: Yahoo isn't the only web company vulnerable to an economic downturn. Google is just as likely to get nailed if the economy slips into a recession.
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Also: Suddenly everything's coming up widgets. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Will these picks be our top investors' latest big wins?
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Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Gadgets Now For Your Website - Is SEO a Game of Outsmarting Search Engines? - Relevant Domain Names - Business Week Article On Click Fraud, and more.
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Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month.
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Take a look at the top stories this week.
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Plus: Web opportunist cuts out middlemen. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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ComScore and UBS analyze top Web sites in U.S. by page views and unique visitors, and the winners are Fox and Yahoo, respectively.
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Yahoo! jumps into the music download biz while Ask Jeeves, Amazon soar; Oracle beats after the bell. NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Bucking the broader market&#39;s trend Tuesday, Internet stocks rallied on Yahoo!
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Plus: The one-world video game challenge. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Having Trouble Believing In Crosslinking Penalties - Directory Wars - Local Search is just Hype - 20 Guidelines To Create Successful Landing Pages - Google as Web King, For Now... - Robots.txt Issue With Duplicate Content