Yahoo! Next and Microsoft Live!

While Google is enhancing its popularity by publicizing its projects-in-the-pipeline thru Google labs , Yahoo is showcasing its own doodles at Yahoo! next. They've got some good stuff here including flash based Yahoo! maps (there is a cool flash maps API that I am using for my own college project) and a mind reading web search that employs machine learning to guess what you are really going after! hmm, can Microsoft be far behind?! no way; check out their mind boggling tour of seattle or their own maps and local search!