According to the results of last weeks test by the Google Operating System blog, users tried out three unidentified search engines and vote which had the best results. The results came back and 51% of the more than 2,000 people who voted said Google had the best results. That was followed by 35 percent for Live Search and 30 percent for Yahoo. I think many people are surprised Live Search, from Microsoft, came in above Yahoo, but I wasn’t - have you tried Yahoo search recently…. blurgh…

It’s a good job Jerry Yang was brought back in to save Yahoo - lets hope it doesnt go the way of Netscape.

One of the last remaining vestiges from the original bubble closed it’s doors this week. Business 2.0, the darling magazine of the internet dot com era says “good night and good speed” with it’s final edition in September. B2.0 was one of my favorite reads, I was never a big fan of Red Herring or Industry Standard so I’m kinda bummed out. As on of the 600,000 subscribers, I guess Conde Nast will be hoping I move over to Fortune magazine, but thats not going to happen. I’ll stick with Fast Company, Rolling Stone and The Economist to stay upto date from now on. Arriva Derche B2.

Like many other print periodicals, Business 2.0 has been hurt by a shift of advertising to the Internet as consumers spend more of their time surfing the Web and less reading magazines and newspapers. As Business 2.0’s revenue shriveled, Time — part of Time Warner Inc. — had been seeking buyers for the magazine. Dissatisfied with the offers it received in recent weeks, Time decided pull the plug and transfer some of the 9-year-old magazine’s top employees to the company’s main business title, Fortune.

“We looked for the best scenario for Business 2.0 — one that would nurture the spirit of the brand’s unique coverage and reporting,” said Time spokeswoman Danielle Perissi. Business 2.0’s final issue is scheduled to hit the newsstands this month.

Adidas have launched (or, are about to launch) one of their biggest US based campaigns ever with the arrival of David Beckham. One line they are taking is Futbol vs. Football - in which Beckham is seen with Reggie Bush - and, hopefully for Adidas, they can educate the US public about the differences between football and (american) football. No doubt their will be a huge online component - just as Nike did with Joga Bonita the joint Futbol site with Google.

Impossible is Nothing from Adidas - here’s the original video:

The new Impossible is Nothing from Adidas campaign will be live shortly… And will explain what Beckahm is talking about - the 1998 world cup with the argie…

ABC Island on the online game Second Life has been devastated in an act of digital vandalism. The Island, the 3rd-most-visited commercial site in the online game that has more than six million members globally, was found as a “bombed, cratered mess” yesterday.

Craig Preston, head of technology for ABC innovation, said only the digital transmission tower was left standing on the island, which cost the ABC tens of thousands of dollars to create. “It looks like we’ve had some enormous cyber-bomb set off on our site,” Mr Preston said. “Somebody has nuked us in some way, shape or form, and they’ve obliterated almost every object on the site.”

The online vandalism, called “griefing”, took several hours to repair.

The ABC was the first major Australian brand to embrace Second Life, in which people exist in a virtual world where they can buy cyber-goods, own digital islands and interact with other players around the world. Mr Preston said the ABC was at a loss to identify who had vandalised the site, but the owners of Second Life, California-based Linden Labs, might have digital recordings of the vandalism taking place.

The vandals left logos for sports brands Nike and Puma on the island, prompting speculation that the attack could be the work of a commercial rival jealous of the ABC’s success. But sources suggested the logos could have been an attempt to throw investigators off the trail.

Lol… no kidding, for a minute there I thought the Nike and Puma development teams did the hack… lol.

Ever wondered what makes a good Web 2.0 site? To be sure, there’s plenty of hype for Web 2.0, some of justified, and some of it not. If you’d like to see a couple of groovy sites living and believing in the W2.0 way, check out NetVibes, a rather nice site giving users the opportunity to fully customize their homepage - can you say goodbye My.Yahoo! out loud? Talking of elimination, ZoHo is a pretty sweet, er, suite of applications designed to give Microsoft and Web 1.0 upstart Google a run.