A Few Quick Search Engines Notes

Haven't done a roundup in a while, but there are a few little things I wanted to address:

Yahoo/Google -- News all over the place that Yahoo is getting ready to dump Google as their backup full-text search engine search ( here's one story: http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040106/tech_yahoo_1.html ). If you're surprised about this you haven't been paying attention. What I AM surprised about is the rumor that Yahoo is going to hold off on the switch to let it coincide with Google's IPO. That doesn't make sense to me. Google is already a dangerous competitor to Yahoo; why wait? Do they truly think it's going to make an impact on Google's IPO?

AlltheWeb Copyright Notice -- The bottom of AlltheWeb (and AltaVista, for that matter) says "Copyright © 2004 Overture Services, Inc.". Is this new? Overture Services? Why doesn't it say Yahoo?

Google's Zeitgeist, IPO -- The year-end Google Zeitgeist is available at http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html . Meanwhile, Google's reportedly hired a couple of banks for the upcoming IPO; more details on that at http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/06/GOOGLE.TMP" .

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