ResearchBuzz Roundup --- 111405

A gaming programmer has mashed up game company locations onto Google Maps: search it all at http://www.gcdb.org/. I'm including this here because of the search results for each company (which include things like what games they've produced) and the advanced search options (which include things like the number of people working at the company and the kind of games produced.)

Om Malik asks, Can we stay GYM free?. In other words, can we stop talking about Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft for a week? Um, I don't think this is a challenge I'll take up. While I appreciate the frustration with the idea that we should all report breathlessly whenever Google's chef announces how many smoothies they make for breakfast or whatever, but at the same time innovations are innovations, and useful tools are useful tools, and they're coming from all over the place -- including G, Y, and M!

"Korean researchers, through the government-funded Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), are reportedly in the final stage of developing an intelligent Korean-language search engine." A brief blurb on this with a timetable at http://www.financeasia.com/articles/7A443C46-9027-7E17-4B68947757C639D2.cfm.

Steve Rubel looks at Ten Technorati Hacks at http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/11/ten_technorati_.html . Nifty!

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