EETimes.com reports that according to research and consulting firm Millward Brown, Google has surpassed Microsoft as the most powerful brand in the world.

The cynic in me wants to say that this news about Yahoo, Slate and Huffington Post really won’t matter, since it’ll require people to actually read about the candidates and their positions and no one does that anymore, anyway.

But the part of me that lives online thinks it’s pretty cool, and yet another indication that 2008 will mark the first Presidential election to be significantly affected by the Internet.

Erik Hauser nails it over on ChiefMarketer.com.

Takeaway for marketers: Language matters.

Here’s the official Web site of International Earth Day, which is today. What better way to celebrate than to spend a bit of time examining views on both sides of perhaps the most crucial issue of our lifetime?

So: Here’s a site designed to counter arguments that global warming is something about which to be concerned. Here’s another. Here’s the official Web site of An Inconvenient Truth, the Oscar-winning movie based on a Powerpoint presentation by Al Gore. And here’s a video of the presentation.

Finally, here’s a bit of reporting from The Onion about the issue.

That’s what News 24 reports Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales saying recently. Well, define “fail.” If that means “experiencing something south of about 69 percent quarterly profit growth,” I agree. Except I think it won’t be so much about the MySpace audience feeling disrespected because of too many ads, as Wales suggests, but more about that audience tiring of yesterday’s fad and moving on to the Next Big Thing, as the Web audience is inclined to do.