If Google isn’t enough, you might need a real person to guide you with your search. ChaCha is a new search engine that offers free life human guides to assist you with your queries. They will cost you an average of US$5-10 an hour, depending on their level of expertise on a certain topic.

Via ChaCha.

Yahoo’s Ultra-new Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search, View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page. Check it out at Yahoo.

Via TrendHunter.

From the Blog Herald:

WordPress just broke a new record having served up over a million downloads. The number will undoubtedly continue to exponentially grow and I congratulate the developers for their hard work and persistance.

That’s quite a milestone for a blogging software. Kudos to WordPress and the developers!! *woot*

Ever wonder what Google is up to? You might get an idea from their growing list of domains. Currently at the moment of this writing Google owns 520 domains. Their domain collecting business has been going on for the last couple years, mostly from companies they acquired bought. Some domains are just weird IMHO, like allevil.org which doesn’t fit their company motto, Do no evil. Or maybe they’re just trying to keep evil from spreading? They’re very wise however to snatch domains that sound similar to Google. I’m sure this is typo prevention so people can type Google the wrong way and still reach their main site. Some of these domains are googel.com, gogle.com, gogole.com and wwwgoogle.com. You can see the complete list at Pronet Advertising. Now I wonder what they’ll do with porngoogle.com. Another evil prevention scheme?

Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc. is in the market for the top users on DIGG, Delicious, Flickr, MySpace, and Reddit. His offer, $12,000 a year in exchange of 150 stories a month - basically less than what these top users are already doing without pay.

It’s interesting to see the blogosphere mutate from an innocent way for people to express themselves into an expanding money market.

As Jason puts it:

Talent wins, and talent needs to get paid. I love paying talented people so they can sleep well at night doing what they love. That’s my biggest joy in business: gettin’ people paid.

I guess what matters at the end of the day is… everybody’s gotta eat!

From The Jason Calacanis Weblog via ProBlogger.