Mercury News (Dan Gilmor): Someone's lying about Google talks. John Robb, former president of Gomez: "I distrust Silicon Valley VCs more than Microsoft (by a substantial margin) and have no desire to see the same personalities fleece the investing public one more time".

Oh, by the way, check out funny Google blog by Larry and Sergey! I liked the "Free Food" post! :)

Here is an interesting decoder for search engines that shows most of the well-known players and their relation to each other.

Last but not least, type Miserable Failure in Google search and see what comes up first! :)