Just days after buying AltaVista, Overture is buying FAST, which gives them AllTheWeb.
So here we are… Yahoo! owns Inktomi, AskJeeves owns Teoma and Overture owns AltaVista and FAST. This is good because Google needs competitors; Google is increasingly bad at finding what I need and Google is becoming far too powerful. Or is everyone just doing a land grab before Google’s inevitable IPO when they could generate enough cash to buy all the other search engines?
Along these lines, I wish Apple would add other search engines to the Google bar in Safari.
Recipezaar has never been mentioned in local press, EVER, and now Jean “Seattle cars need two horns: one for ‘get out of the way’, one for ‘hi!’” Godden gives 3 paragraphs to a site that does 1% of the traffic we do FOR having a router go out that they couldn’t get replaced for THREE days!
The New York Times covers the Google/Blogger deal. Just more speculation, but it sounds like they paid nothing for Pyra. Makes sense.
Wired News talked with some guy who thinks he knows why Google bought Blogger. But that still doesn’t make sense. Google didn’t need Blogger to index RSS feeds.
BusinessWeek devoted an entire section to linux. Now that BusinessWeek is taking seriously and understanding open source, maybe all the “open source can’t possibly make money” talk will finally disappear. And the cover art is just about the coolest cover I’ve seen in a long time on any magazine (I hate that stupid MSN butterfly).
What I don’t think Microsoft truly groks yet is that it’s all about commodities… an operating system, a web server, a database are all commodoties, in general. Yes, there are special cases where you need a specialized OS, web server or database, but 99% of the cases a commoditized version is satisfactory or even preferable. Microsoft is determined to prevent Windows from becoming a commodity, but that’s a futile battle. Microsoft’s revenue from Windows will continue to fall and they will have to become an applications company. Unfortunately for them, they only have one successful application: Office. And that just may become a commodity too.
Sun can already tell you how hard it is to compete with a pricey Solaris against a commodity . And Oracle also will feel the heat from MySQL.
Micheal Jackson might be a little strange, but his plastic surgery is his own damn business — he has to live with that nose — and I really don’t believe he did anything more than sleep in the same bed as those kids. While he may not the best father (kid out the window), he hires nurses for that job. He is certainly a great friend of children; mainly because he has not grown up himself. This documentary guy was out to manipulate Jackson just like the father of the kid he settled the sexual abuse case. Poor Michael.
From the silly questions we get at Recipezaar file:
Can you tell me the title of the recipe that has 3/4 cup shortening, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup molasses, 2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons baking soda, 2 teaspoons ground ginger, 1 teaspoon ginger, 1/2 teasponn salt additional sugar? P.S. Give me your answer by February 20
We finally took some pics of the machinery behind Recipezaar.
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Another mention of Recipezaar in a newspaper! The St. Petersburg Times mentions Recipezaar: Faced with nearly 50,000 recipes (an embarrassment of riches), your biggest problem will be picking one from this voluminous site. Recipes are conveniently categorized and easily sorted, and this will help. If time is of the essence, you can choose by preparation time (0 to 15 minutes, 15 to 30 minutes or 30 to 60 minutes). If economy is important, you can choose among 7,818 recipes that use five or fewer ingredients. People on special diets will find this site fertile ground, with options for diets of every ilk.
Surprise! The Macs we ordered FedEx 3-day got here in 1 day! We were even planning to run errands in Seattle today so we would’ve missed the FedEx man; but luckily, we postponed that until Wednesday. Anyway, I’ve put pics up at my (temporary) .mac site. The Quicksilver PowerMacs look even better than I remember them. They’re very silver…. I thought our old PowerMac was silver but it’s more bluish. And these things are fast!!
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