Летом этого года пошли на подъем поисковые сервисы, позволяющие найти не мертвый текст, а человека-эксперта по заданной теме, который доступен для прямой консультации через Skype или другой мессенджер. Попробуем угадать, кто первым замутит такой поисковик в Рунете?

The major payment systems Visa and MasterCard have forbidden their partners from taking payments from clients of the Allofmp3.com website, which the American authorities have accused of illegally distributing music. However, managers of the website declared yesterday at an on-line conference that their company abides by Russian law, pays its taxes and pays what is due to the authors. So the claims of the Americans have a greater relation to Russian laws, while the accusations directed at Allofmp3.com are merely a way to get more concessions from Russia before entering the WTO. Nevertheless, when attempting to pay for music on Allofmp3.com with a credit card, a message appears, telling you that this credit card payment is not accessible.

The company PROMT and its American partner Smart Link Corporation announce the connection of the online translator ImTranslator, based on the PROMT translation server, to the AOL search portal. Now, thanks to ImTranslator's centralized service, users will not need to search a word to translate on one website, check the spelling on another and translate it on a third. This is not the first instance that the Americans have rated the quality of the PROMT system. In autumn 2005 NASA installed PROMT electronic translators on board the International Space Station and on astronauts’ pocket computers.

Last week PayPal partially opened the door to the countries of the former Soviet Union. In particular, it is now possible to pay for purchases on the eBay auction site. "Computerra" columnist Sergey Golubitsky, though, is inclined to criticize: "Why is PayPal needed, when there is WebMoney? There is our own MoneyMail, which is 10 times more convenient than PayPal".

Sergey Mikheev from the FINAM holding, which owns the MoneyMail system, also believes that, "it is unlikely that PayPal will quickly become a fully-fledged member of the Russian market". Representatives from the WebMoney and YandexMoney payment systems agree, commenting on the multitude of shortcomings with the American system. Russians are not afraid of the arrival of the eBay auction site either: Anna Artamonova, Vice President of Mail.ru, which owns the Russian Internet auction Molotok.ru, believes that no one will threaten the absolute leadership of Molotok on the local market.

After the announcement that the Sup.ru project had purchased the licence from Six Apart to support the Russian-language part of LiveJournal.com, radical blogger Mithgol announced the closure of its LiveJournal blog and the switch to FIDO because it has no wish "to work for hooknose jews".

Other users have set up a number of hate-communities (no_sup, anti_sup, new_albanians and others). Protest measures include flash mobs, letters of complaint to Brad-the-Founder (Fitzpatrick) and other means. Sup representatives have already explained that there will be neither a physical nor a judicial transfer of blogs to Russia.

However, at the same time Sup CBO Anton Nosik remarked in his personal blog that the percentage of "bastard protestors" can be disregarded when compared with the total volume of Russian-language LJ bloggers (698,000). After this it was not only the nationalists that joined the protest. According to the results of a poll, in which over 8,000 LJ users took part, the majority (51%) view the Sup – Six Apart deal negatively, with only 9% rating it positively (the rest remaining undecided). It is clear that Sup PR managers are responsible for such a negative reaction; they boasted much about the deal, but failed to show any kind of benefit for the simple users.