comScore a global leader in measuring the digital world announces qSearch

qSearch 2.0 is the First Service to Report Search Activity for France and the World.

Thanks to the comScore's press release announcing qSearch, we have a peak on the search engines market share in France (data does not take in consideration access from Internet cafes or the like, and mobile devices such as PDAs.)

Yahoo has a page dedicated to Wii, the Nintendo video game console, which is quite cool since it's rich in web 2.0 content, user generated or not, and really looks like Yahoo is now a completely different experience. Like it's web 2.0 for them too. And that's the problem.

Brand without a clue

The Wii page on Yahoo is interesting as it's full of external, user generated content such as Flickr images, tags Wii-related from Del.icio.us and MyWeb, features stories, and useful links. The following is the Wii - Yahoo! Games page screen shot.

Now, this page is nice, it has enough web 2.0 features to make you reach the informations you were looking for, you can actually be part of the content as you as a user could be an active user of this very same page. The problems start if you look at the big Yahoo picture, it's web presence that is.

There's a lot of talking of something happening lately with bees. A worldwide phenomenon is going on, a lot of bees are dying and scientists have no clue of what's going on. Many causes are under investigation, ranging unknown from viruses to a mix of diseases hitting undermined bees immune system. For some people it's a signal of the upcoming apocalypse; those people are always around, you know.

Stressed bees are more weak and open to viruses

One of the theory is that bees are dying because of a prolonged stress as a result of continue moving them from one place to the other (the pollination business is huge and beekeepers move them on demand receiving a fee from farmers) is weakening these insects immune systems, making them more stressed and then more open to virus spread.

Colony Collapse Disorder: bees are highly socially structured animals, just as humans

If you go back to your secondary education years, you know that bees are highly socially structured animals. They have a well organized society, roles and skills oriented social classes are defined so to create what you might say looks very much as a nation or a social organization having as a goal the feeding of the queen. Collateral effects are the production of honey and, in fact, the development of what looks like an economy driven society, for the bees themselves that is (not just for the humans).