The New State of Search: Here’s a little table of all the search engine acquisitions and deals that have happened this year. I didn’t realize that Overture bought AltaVista, then AllTheWeb, and then was acquired by Yahoo! along with Inktomi. Then Google picks up Prya Labs, and MSN lanuches the MSNBot — there have really been some big changes in this space. Consolidation is all the rage.
Google, Amazon in a war of search words: Two Internet heavyweights are scrapping it out for top talent. Oh, to have a computer science degree... "Google and Amazon.com are fighting for top computer scientists on Google's home turf: search results. When Web surfers use Google to search on the name 'Udi…