Why it all makes sense There is a good deal of buzz in the tech-news world about a $3.9 million investment that Google has made in a company called 23andMe, a startup in hiring mode with dreams of “helping consumers understand and browse their genome”.$3.9 million? What’s the big deal about a company that Google is investing less than 1/750th the cash is put out to buy DoubleClick? As Eric Schmidt has pointed out, Google buys companies with “1-2-3 people and you never, never hear about them.”The big deal is this: Anne Wojcicki, who is a co-founder of 23andMe and who is

Larry Sanger, the ex co-founder of Wikipedia, wants to creat its alternative - Citizendium. His goal is to avoid the vandalism and inconsistency of the previous project.Like Wikipedia, Citizendium will be nonprofit, devoid of ads and free to read and edit. Unlike Wikipedia, Citizendium's volunteer contributors will be expected to provide their real names. Experts in given fields will be asked to check articles for accuracy."If there's going to be a free encyclopedia, I'd like there to be a better free encyclopedia," says Sanger, 38, who has a doctorate in philosophy and speaks slowly,

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales claims that the search engine they are developing is to become a serious competitor to Google and Yahoo and will take around 5% of the search market.Unlike Wikipedia, Wiki Search is going to be a commercil project. Wales described the two Internet firms as "black boxes" that won't disclose how they rank search results, Wales said collaborative search technology could transform the power structure of the Internet. The new Wikia Search page rank will be composed by users, not algorythms. First three results will be given from Wikipedia and the following results

Wikipedia has gathered 1 000 000 dollars of donations.The largest donation made was in December 2006 - anonymous person left 286800 dollars on Wikipedia's banking account. Average donation amount composes 5-10 dollars. The creators of the website claim that the expenses for Wikipedia's support are high enough - 200000 dollars were spent to pay for hosting in 2005-2006.