A daily review of Web and Media news that crosses my path during the day.

- comScore: Google Continues to Hold Top Position in Search Share Rankings (see also Shore analysis: "It also means that general aggregators will continue to position their search services increasingly for specific verticals")

- Josh Porter has a number 1 hit on Squidoo, with his catchy tune called Introduction to Web 2.0 (I hear the disco version is awesome)

- Blog Herald being auctioned off: High bid stands at $72,000 (Blog Herald is a blog about blogging and is affiliated with the B5media network. Current owner Duncan Riley outlines his reasons for selling)

- Burnham’s Beat Reports Record Q4 Revenues (nevertheless, I've downgraded my Burnham's Beat rating to AAA-)

- TechCrunch: Yahoo Acquires SearchFox Assets (as Mike said, unclear if Yahoo bought it before or after the recently announced SearchFox closure) 

- Digg gets a WSJ write-up (Slashdot's Rob Malda "said he considered a Digg-like format for Slashdot, but rejected the idea because he believes much of Slashdot's value lies in its editors' news judgment.")

- The Prejudice Map of the World (New Zealand is not on the map, but I'll tell you here what Google delivers for kiwis: ingenuity, good-natured bluster, tinkering)

- Managing Hotmail ("Hotmail relies on more than 10,000 servers spread around the globe to process billions of e-mail transactions per day." Link via Jeff Clavier, who nicely summarizes it)

- Web 2.0 Show interviews Jason Fried from 37Signals. ("I encourage everybody to build things.")

- anne 2.0: Where are the Women? ("At what point will men stop asking "where are the women in the blogosphere?" We are everywhere: writing about politics, about tech, about feminism, about new media, about motherhood, about economics, about academics, about everything that men blog about.")

Disco pic by Éole