SPIEGEL Surfs the Web A World Cup for Robots
The modern day battle is no longer man against man or man against machine. The ultimate battle of today is machine fighting machine. Next year, top soccer players will meet on the pitch across Germany to battle it out for the World Cup. But in Bremen, armies of robots will be testing their endurance at the Robocup 2006 . You can find out more about the cup's teams -- from fantasy to Aibo league -- on the Cup's official Web site.
A View from the Windsor Guildhall
First they made a name for themselves by webcasting the site of Madonna's marriage to Guy Ritchie in Scotland. Now, Network Webcams is setting its sights on Charles and Camilla, who will wed Saturday, just as soon as he gets back from the pope's funeral in Rome. The company has installed two Webcams on the roof of the Castle Hotel, which is located directly across the street from Windsor Guildhall, where the pair will exchange vows and admit their "sins and wickedness."
Do You Yagoohoogle?
It is merely a small step for a programmer -- but what an impact on the World Wide Web! Norwegian Asgeir Nilsen was tired of having to go through the cumbersome procedure of first searching Google, then Yahoo and shuffling between windows. So he combined the two to create Yagoohoogle. Why not just stick to one search engine or the other? Google, with its thorough search, is the established market leader, but also produces many meaningless and often annoying results. Yahoo, in contrast, filters out a lot of the junk clogging up the Google results, but can hold back important information if you are looking for anything specific. By simply combining the two search engines, Nilsen, has made the world a whole lot simpler -- except, of course, for that complicated word.
