(UPDATED) At its I/O Conference last week Google announced that it would open a store for paid and free web apps later this year. Outside deveopers will be able to sell via The Chrome Web Store which will support all major web platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux and of course, Google’s Chrome OS.

Did you get the sarcasm in that one? If a picture is worth a thousand words then Yahoo, bing and Ask.com must be saying “Oh crap, not again!” 250 times right now. Experian’s Hitwise shows why.

What’s the name of that song? You know the one. They play it a lot at NC State football games? C’mon, you know it. “Boom, here comes the boom….” No? Forget it! I’ll Google it instead!

Is the Real-Time Web a threat to Google? Rackspace executive Lew Moorman sure thinks so. He’s right. Fewer and fewer of my search behaviors have been on Google lately.