This content below does provide a nice round up of search related goodies. None of it is going to change your life mind you, but there are some good tidbits none the less.

Every Friday, I’m going to be doing a Carnival of Web Search, which basically is a round-up of some of the best web search and search engine-related blog posts out there. Please feel free to send me additions to the Carnival of Web Search.

* Silicon Gossip [BuzzMachine]
“Valleywag, the latest from the Denton boutique, is up and running with Nick Douglas, who did a great job on Blogebrity, at the snarkboard, proving that there can, too, be gossip about unattractive people.”
* 5 Growing Internet Technologies of 2006 [rev2.org]
“I hear a lot about these technologies on a daily basis, so I thought it would be cool to make a list of technologies - not companies- but protocols and new ways of getting information across, that will make 2006 feel like 1999 all over again (but better).” [Read the rest]

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