Thanks to Google's unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition. But while Yahoo, Ask, and now Cuil duke it out for whatever scraps of market share they can get, specialized search engines are aggressively trying to outwit the master. Join John D. Mitchell, also known as the Mad Scientist of MarkMail, for "A Tale of Two Search Engines" at the Cubberly Community Center in Palo Alto at 6:30 p.m. Also on the Peninsula, Bay.Net is bringing DotNetNuke's cofounder Shaun Walker to Foothill College at 6:00 p.m to talk about the open-source application that could. But if you're more inclined to do a little story telling of your own, head to Techsoup at 7:00 p.m. The SF Online Community Report MeetUp wants to know, "What are you doing?" So go on. Don't be shy. Tell them.(Photo by Danard Vincente)

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