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• The Least Helpful Search Result 
• Public Information Shouldn’t Require a Subpeona I’ve been thinking about this quite a bit lately. I consider all my web searches, this post - and generally anything that’s not email or an instant messsage - public. Now, I’m cool with 1 million random results from the index being handed over to the government under one single condition - anyone, anyone at all, a
• Introducing WP-GotLucky WP-GotLucky 1.2 includes database and RSS2 support The WP-GotLucky plugin send you an email everytime a page on your WordPress weblog is Google’s “I feel lucky” search result. Download WP-GotLucky v1.2 For suggestions, comments, and all other ongoing concerns with this plugin, head over to the WP-GotLucky dedicated page
• Google AppEngine: More About Google Labs than You? There’s a long history of tech companies developing there own applications because it’s cheaper long-term than licensing, especially for core applications like: email, calendaring, text processing. I’m confident Apple employee use Mail.app, iCal, and iWork in-house and those apps are cheap or free for the rest of use. Same for Sun and StarOffice/NeoOffice. Same for Google
• Web 2.Over: Google Buys FeedBurner Consistent with my hypothesis that Google is a social gesture company, they bought FeedBurner (a company finally reaching its only exit strategy, Thank god). Four Predictions: Six Apart now pulls auto-FeedBurning from TypePad blogs due to conflict of interest. Google incorporates FeedBurners metrics into Google Analytics and sends the rest of FeedBurner to play with Dodgeball. More than