MicroHoo No More

If you haven't heard, Microsoft withdrew it's proposal to buy Yahoo. Too bad, it would have been interesting to see what Microsoft would try to do with it. IMHO it would have been an EPIC FAIL but fun to watch just the same.

Supposedly Yahoo was going to be the vehicle Microsoft would use to try to catch up to Google in Search, and they missed the bus. What is Microsoft to do now? The thing for them to remember, is Search is still in it's infancy and is essentially confined to the PC.

Personal life stream search accessible on any device will be the future.

Superb Attention Grab

Paul Kedrosky's blog entry entitled "Google Announces Layoffs" is simply brilliant! ...well the title is brilliant at least anyway.

A throwback to the practice of old media, it makes you go WHAT!!! and forces you to immediately click on it to find out more.

Hehe, Mr. Kedrosky, you got me.

Google Under Fire

There are lots of reporters and bloggers reporting today on the downward trend in paid clicks and Google in particular. Is anyone really surprised? Even the fine folks in Google were probably thinking, when the f*ck in this sh*t gonna calm down!?! All the fluff pieces about Google in the media has skewed the stock into keeping on flying up, up, up and away.

For a while there some people were probably thinking Google can buck the economy's downturn. Sorry. They are good, but not that good.