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I wasn't aware of the search feature the Big Head Labs hacked together until recently. Unlike the work Jason has done, ycsearch.com has absolutely no technical achievements (on my part). I spent 30 minutes to put it together because I want to use it. ycsearch.com does provide a different set of results since Google cse will crawl all ycombinator.com and also partial external sites news.yc link to.

I put this together quickly to search yc sites with google cse and found it helpful after using it for a few weeks. In response to discussions at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912, I hope you will find it useful until pg implemented the search feature.

Would you exchange 4 million new users in one month for decline in Alexa ranking? Hell yeah!

iLike traffic actually shares the same exponential growth since all contents in their facebook app are served from their servers. Facebok does not host your app.

I'm gonna start selling some AAPL stocks

From interview with Alexis:

"Paul wanted to give Aaron Swartz, another YC founder, a birthday gift in November. More than anything else, Aaron wanted co-founder so Paul suggested the 'merger'. Merger is probably a bit hyperbolic for what actually happened, Aaron basically moved in with us and we made him a co-founder."

http://startupstories.com/2006/11/29/passion-for-your-users-will-come-back-alexis-ohanian-co-founder-of-reddit/

Thanks for the link. I have been enjoying working in a shared open-space work space in Vancouver http://abetterplacetowork.com and looking for something similar in Cambridge

The news came out after report that Microsoft sold only 244 copies of Vista in the whole of China in the first 2 weeks.

I think people that started newroo http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/03/newroos-real-time-news-aggregator/ are responsible of myspace news

Followup - Paul Kedrosky: Microsoft calls for mommy http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/04/16/google_rivals_c.html

interesting, for people that picked up RoR as a tool for 'beating the average' (http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html) - RoR has become framework of choice for average startups..

for projects written using Rails, i would suggest engine yard or railsmachine

(Submitted under comment in Don's blog. Hopefully it will be approved.)

Don,

I believe Microsoft's demise is more closely related to Apple and Google than you have thought.

Google - easy one, GMail and Google Doc basically replaced the MS office suite I purchased in '98

Apple - based on Paul Kedrosky's observations, Vista sales is highly correlated to PC sales and once those numbers are normalized, "it looks like Vista sales are tracking on par with XP, and no better than that" (http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2007/03/26/playing_parse_t.html).

So from the indications of recent AAPL stock price - what if Apple continues to gain shares in the PC market? Upon purchasing a new iMac, my dad (retired) have found out that switching to Os X is easy as long as solitaire is installed.

Bug: not all comments by pg is shown

Thanks for answering my question, I noticed your comment http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=9074 did not show in pg's comments page http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg

I assumed that comments displayed on the page are sorted by time

YC and PG have been effectively convincing young hackers it's not too early to start a startup. Startup is the new NBA - flooded with young talents, putting school aside for a shot at the big league.

While I still believe it's never too late to start a start up, is there an upper bound on the age of YCombinator? Would love to know the statistics on the age of mature founders from YC.

Google Tech Talks April 2, 2007

Speakers: Pasha Sadri & Jonathan Trevor of Yahoo!

Comparing technology in Justin.tv and webcam with wireless connection is like comparing Lisp and Java..

Justin.tv created barrier by using the best mobile technology they know of. With that they can show contents that can not be achieved by users of Ustream.tv. The geeky gears give them branding, network effect and intangible assets, etc to widen the gap with other competitors