Really enjoyed this article (thanks Paul, although not for posting the URL in the one part of my desktop where it can’t be clicked or copied – the intro line of MSN IM).

Quote: “Yahoo could add an extra $1.5B to their revenue overnight by conceding monetization to Google and becoming a distribution partner for Adwords, as Ask Jeeves did.”

We’re definitely in the Age of Google: search as the start page of the Internet I mean, when did you last bookmark a URL? I haven’t used my browser’s bookmarks list in years. I think I’ll enjoy it for now, because like IBM and Microsoft, the era has a certain natural length and in a decade or less something else will take over. But just in case, I’ll continue using Anonymizer and disabling cookies, so Google’s file on me won’t be quite as voluminous.