Google's Goal to Organize Our Lives

One of the ten most popular stories of the year the Financial Times, Google's goal: to organize your daily life

Google’s ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off.
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The race to accumulate the most comprehensive database of individual information has become the new battleground for search engines as it will allow the industry to offer far more personalised advertisements. These are the holy grail for the search industry, as such advertising would command higher rates.

Mr Schmidt told journalists in London: “We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don’t know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google’s expansion.”

Zillow sounds like pillow

I would say that most of the bloggers over at BusinessWeek's Hot Property feel that the bubble in real estate won't pop, but leak slowly.
Too many unsold houses and changing demographics.

But it looks like the brokers have the most to worry about in a changing real estate market. Zillow.com: How Scared Should Brokers Be?

Zillow has already raised $32 million!