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Mike from Little Rock, Arkansas asks Ask Yahoo where does snot come from?

Now aren't you glad you read that? ;)

I'm sure you've head about Google Fight by now where you can Linus Torvalds matches up against Bill Gates or finally prove to yourself that Coke is better than Pepsi by comparing Google results between two different words. Bringing it to the next level we have Search Engine Smackdown. Using the heavy weights of the Search Engine field, see how much trivia you know about the history of the market. Technorati tags: Flash Games, Search Engines

I'm sure you've head about Google Fight by now where you can Linus Torvalds matches up against Bill Gates or finally prove to yourself that Coke is better than Pepsi by comparing Google results between two different words.

Bringing it to the next level we have Search Engine Smackdown. Using the heavy weights of the Search Engine field, see how much trivia you know about the history of the market.

From here: Do police departments have quotas?

Dear Yahoo!: Do police departments have speeding ticket quotas? If so, is a driver more likely to receive a ticket at certain times? Bob Cumberland, Rhode Island

Dear Bob: Most police departments would say, "Not us. No way do we have quotas." Our favorite quote comes from the Brockton Police Department in Massachusetts: "No sir, we don't have quotas anymore. We used to have quotas, but now we're allowed to write as many tickets as we want."

From Red Herring:

What Net surfers most commonly search for on the web is pretty surprising. Most actually end up looking for search engines themselves, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. It could be that they're just lazy or don't really know what they're doing. The No. 1 search term in November 2005 was "eBay," with 13.9 million requests, followed by "Google," with 13.3 million requests. Rounding out the top five most common search terms were "Yahoo," "Mapquest," and "Yahoo.com." Fully five out of the top 10 search terms were names of actual search engines, and all of the top 10 terms were names of web sites rather than topics. The first topical search term, "weather," came in at a distant No. 23. "Whether this behavior is driven by ignorance or savvy, the end result is the same: The search engine is the focal point of the online experience for Internet users across the spectrum," said Ken Cassar, chief analyst at Nielsen//NetRatings.

SOURCE: Nielsen//NetRatings