It was just a few years ago that a school project took the first steps away from its school hosted subdomain and onto its very own domain. The modest We’ve Moved page can still be seen at archive.org as can the original home page.
Check out the special searches for Stanford and Linux and the familiar “beta” marker. Now … Read more

It seems like there was a PR update last night. Several threads have started to discuss the latest change. Of course, every ranking change is followed by posts of how the search engine in question is either going down hill or better than ever so what better time for us to point out the Negativity towards Google discussion … Read more

Google released their 1Q earnings today and like Yahoo! earlier this week, posting a large increase in profits. Google’s 1Q earnings are nearly six times as much as a year previous. Income from operations rose to $443 million from $155 million, and its operating profit margin rose to 35.2 percent of revenue from 23.8 percent a year earlier.
The … Read more

Andy Beal points to an entry by Silicon Valley Watcher who is reporting seeing a strange new browser viewing their website. Could this be the long rumored Google browser out for a test drive? Google does own gbrowser.com and has recently hired Firefox designers including Lead Designer Ben Goodger.
It could mean nothing at all. Time will tell.

The first quarter earnings have just been released by Yahoo. Their net income was $204.6 million, or 14 cents a share vs. net income of $101.2 million, or 7 cents a share, in the Q1 2004.
Revenues were $1,174 million for the first quarter of 2005, a 55 percent increase compared to $758 million for the same period of … Read more