Uhhh, is it just me, or do the Webby site qualify (ironically), for the most useless site ever made. Wow, we give out awards with titles, with no explaination. None, at all. "Technical Achievement", okay, what did you think was so impressive about Apache? Why was it better then what Google's accomplished?

We give out this awards, and explain nothing, nothing at all. Geez, that's useful. They give you links to the people who won, and the people nominated. Whoopie! Why not tell me something useful, like the criteria that you used to evaluate them (the criteria is there, but hidden away). Why not tell me what the Apache people did to qualify as: "Sites introducing or integrating technology that pushes the envelope, and invite us to believe in what once seemed impossible" .

Great, you took 4 technical achievements, arbitrarily picked one. That's nice, where's some useful content? Personally, I think Google News is much cooler then anything Apache's done lately. Not that Apache isn't cool, but Google's done far more previously deemed impossible things lately then Apache has. At least tell me what you think Apache has done that you think is wonderful?

Maybe they'll release all that information later after some goofy ceremony, but seems like it'd be mighty useful content to give the site some actual value.

Kirby

Hmmm, I agree with that, but the "news" isn't most media companies news either.

How many stories are covered by the AP wire, a freelance, or just a republished post by other people Yahoo does it, CNN does it, I don't read MSNBC, but I'll bet they do it. Yes CNN and MSNBC sends people to gather news, but a lot of them just get news from affiliates or other local news sources and aggregate it just like google does.

The thing most people I know who like Google's news, is that it's very up to date, and that it presents a lot of different views all of them at your finger tips. As such, it's the most balanced, accurate up to date "reporting". I quote reporting, because they don't have any reporters, but they aggregate news in a way that is far more useful then the individual pieces.

The only people who have better news sources, are the people who employ personal news reviewers to give them the most up to date, and concise news updates daily.

Kirby