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Index to and links for Observer columns in 1999

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You can search for dot-com domain names here. To search for .co.uk domain names (and register them inexpensively), try http://www.uk2.net/	Evan Schwartz has written a couple of good books on the Web economy and the economics of e-commerce: Webonomics (1997) and Digital Darwinism (1999). Both are published by Penguin.	Wired had a nice piece about the VA Linux IPO. The New York Times story was headlined "A Tiny Company With Dim Prospects Goes Public With a Bang" -- which just about says it all. (The NYT Web edition is very good, and it's free, but you need to register with them to access the site.)
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Carlton's Jamba (where do these names come from?) describes itself as "Trivia. Games. Prizes. Chat. Where the Web is fun". As of the date of publication, Granada's G-Wizz was not open for business.	AskJeeves is a NASDAQ company valued (last time I looked) at over $3 billion. Google is a relatively new start-up which works by applying a kind of automated peer review to the ranking of web-pages -- in other words, it ranks pages according to who links to them. Unlike other search engines, it isn't plastered with advertisements.	Northern Light claims to index more pages than anyone else. Here's an article containing estimates of the size of the indexes held by the major engines. The article in Nature was "Accessibility and Distribution of Information on the Web" by Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles. Nature 400(6740): 107-109, July 8, 1999. Search Engine Watch is an excellent starting point for anyone seeking comparative data on search engines.	The Department of Justice's submission that, on the basis of Judge Jackson's 'Findings of Fact', Microsoft violated the Sherman Act is available here.
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Links for 5 December 1999 ..............................................................................................
The Slate piece about Judge Posner is here. There's an interesting critique of his view about how judges maximise utilities -- just like everyone else, according to economists. And his online biography on the Chicago Law School site is here.	The text of the OFTEL decision on unbundling the local loop was published on its Web site. Sir Iain Vallance's speech was published on BT's corporate site -- though one has to hunt for it.	I write about Paxman more in sorrow than in anger. In general I think he's a Good Egg -- as you can see from this profile I wrote of him some time ago.

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© John Naughton 1999,2000,2001. Nothing in this Web page should be construed as offering investment advice. Information is posted here to supplement my column in the London Observer in the hope that additional links and background will be of interest to readers. If you are seeking advice or information about online investment, pay off your credit card bills first and then consult The Motley Fool. If you want to know where the World Wide Web is headed, buy a crystal ball.