Steve Rubel ponders the consequences of the launch of Wikiseek – the new search engine from Wikipedia. Could this be a Google-slayer, he asks?

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John Battelle reports on Comscore’s latest figures on the search market. He notes that in December 2006, Google gained 0.4 share from November, to lead with 47.3% market, and Yahoo! went up 0.3, continuing with the second largest share of 28.5% . Microsoft share dropped 0.5 points to 10.5% share, Ask fell .1 points to 5.5% share, and Time Warner share shrunk by 0.2 points, to close at 4.9% share.

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Usingenglish.com has a free text content analysis tool which provides instant feedback on various aspects of a piece of work, including “lexical density” and its “fog index”.

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Here’s a quick tutorial on tagging and categorizing content on your site, and how they function on TML (The Mu Life).

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New data indicates that blogging is paying off for newspapers. According to Nielsen/NetRatings blogs accounted for 13 percent of overall visits to newspaper sites in December. This is up from four percent in December 2005. Unique visitors to newspapers blogs climbed to 3.8 million. Report from Steve Rubel.

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Steve Rubel points out some interesting resources which show how to extend the power of Google Reader.

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John Battelle’s Searchblog points out that ‘Web 2.0’ was Wikipedia’s Most Cited Term of 2006.

PaidContent.org reports on the £100m venture funding received by ePaper start up Plastic Logic. The money is to be used to build a factory in Germany.

The company plans to improve the quality of its plastic displays from 150 pixels-per-inch, 16-shade greyscale in 2008 to 20 dots-per-inch, 4,096-color screens in 2010 and full video ability by 2012, says IDG.

Some blue chip investors are involved in the deal, including Intel, Bank of America and BASF.

Rumours surface that Wikipedia is considering launching a search service to rival Google which would combine human intelligence with web crawling to produce “better results”.

More on the subject of Ajax and metrics from Google blogger Matt Cutts…