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Government could take an active role and redefine zoning laws to allow for agricultural areas in some formerly urban areas. Other cities in Michigan have done something similar: Flint started a program to assist moving residents out of sparsely populated, heavily foreclosed areas, into more densely populated areas, consolidating people and turning abandoned neighborhoods into parkland.

i don't mean to be trolling in the general MS-bashing mood, but this is consistent with a lot of, let's say, grey-area marketing they have done in the past (see internet explorer).

And, you can call bing the fake google, but not "fake search".

Having said that, best of luck to Zoho.

How is this news?

I agree with the points made by others here, about the quality of links being degraded in recent times, lots of SEO in lots of websites that are meant to just play with pagerank, and a general crowding of results with old and irrelevant stuff.

I find myself alternating between google and bing these days, for some technical searches sometimes bing works better (especially - and unsurprisingly - for Microsoft-related technologies).

Some competition from bing may lead us to a better google (just like competition from apple made microsoft's new OS better).

Maybe Google Wave won't be as revolutionary as some think, but calling Google arrogant for coming up with new stuff seems just ranting for the sake of ranting.

I wouldn't use bold for the entire page. It makes it harder to read.

"I walked up to a neurosurgeon and asked him about a million-node botnet, and never got an answer".

I guess the NYT has to water stuff down for the masses to an extent when they treat technical matters, but I never suspected that they could be so far off...

I have been wondering some of the same questions. It seems like Goldman Sachs is one of the best-positioned large bank in this whole thing. Now they get to eat the cake and have it too? Am I missing something?

In a way, it's not all that surprising that virus might have been around for longer than other living forms, being simpler and with less moving parts. It's the KISS principle of life, I guess.