Also in the WSJ today (subscription-required links are useless, so no link love) is an article on Google’s and the National Archive’s efforts to place videos from the “National Achive”:2 online. One such video entitled “_The Eagle has Landed_”:1 is about man’s landing on the moon.

Here’s a “link”:3 to the National Archives homepage on Google Video. Looks like some interesting space-history stuff and black and white propaganda videos (some of which will probably seem hilarious today).

I’d sure like to embed the Eagle video on my site, but looks like that feature is not available for this video.

[3(National Archives home on Google Video)]http://video.google.com/nara.html

[2(US National Archives homepage)]http://www.archives.gov/

[1(The Eagle has Landed on Google Video)]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4166049933953240830&q=the+eagle+has+landed

Ask.com recently dropped the Jeeves from its name along with its butler icon. The name change along with a multi-million dollar ad campaign are part of a brand-building effort designed to help it build more marketshare. From the WSJ…

bq.. Ask handled only 5.5% of U.S. search queries in December, compared with Google’s 48.8%, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. That places Ask fifth in searches, also behind Yahoo, MSN and AOL.

p. No word in the WSJ article on the specifics of how much they will be spending on the ad campaign other than it is in the “multi-million dollars”. Ask.com was purchased by Barry Dillar’s IAC/InterActiveCorp last summer for $1.85 billion

Here’s the latest “Alexa”:1 graphs for Ask.com.

It will be interesting to see if they can buy marketshare.

[1(Alexa Ask.com info page)]http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&compare_sites=&y=t&q=&url=ask.com

From Scoble’s blog, I got this “link”:1 to this video.

Zoinger says, brilliant!

*_Update: 2005-03-16_*
Turns out that Microsoft “originated”:2 this video.

[2(Microsoft confirms it created the video)]http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/25957

[1(Scobles post on video)]http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/02/27/ouch-what-if-microsoft-designed-the-ipod-box/