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alarm:clock has broke the story: http://www.thealarmclock.com/mt/archives/2007/05/google_negotiat.html

And everyone is reporting on it: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/04/google-in-talks-to-acquire-simplyhired/ http://mashable.com/2007/05/04/google-simplyhired/

However Joshua Jaffe at VC ratings think this is non-sense. Why would the search giant buy search. http://vcratings.thedealblogs.com/2007/05/google_buying_a_vertical_searc.php

I wish I could take sides and call one thing reasonable over other. what you guys think Does it makes sense ?

And Adam is a gifted writer, or lets say he has a neck of picking the top N things built on top of an API. Also check http://mashable.com/2007/04/29/7-awesome-things-built-on-the-digg-api/

It would be nice if we could search for previously posted stories on news.yc

I came across the metrolive article when pg submitted it here, but to find it again had to search Google and then fetch the link from Google's cache. Too much work.

A lot has already been said, but I want to participate as well:

For those who think Arrington likely didnt took money from MSFT, for the past couple of months I was seeing MIX ads on the top banner, below the first post and on the sidebar. Is this not giving money albeit more subtly ?

For PG If you were in his position, having an exclusive interview with Ray Ozzie, a high profile lunch and ten hours of selling to go with months long ad campaigns on TC, I am not sure you would have done something different.

But I havent said here that you would have wanted to be in this position, that's a totally different thing.

I cant really understand this statement of Arrington "it blows away native Javascript routines - without exaggeration, Ajax looks like a bicycle next to a Ferrari when compared to Silverlight"

The other reason for writing this post I guess is that the previous post from Nik didnt got enough page views "Nik wrote a very long post yesterday afternoon on Silverlight, long after the initial news broke. From a pageview standpoint, the post was a loser for us. We would have been far better off doing a one-paragraph post at 10 am announcing the news, and by the time we wrote in the late afternoon the buzz had worn off somewhat."

Totally agreed, I think Kevin Rose made the right choice. Banning the stories at this juncture would have been a suicide.

The users threatened to move on to Reddit, but this does not mean Reddit would have been a beneficiary, it would have to either allow this or show the users door once again.

Check out techmeme http://www.techmeme.com/070502/p5#a070502p5

cant help imagining how much press coverage Digg has got on this issue

It should be "Thats how the rumor mill works" :)

really nice

Didn't knew New York Post has such a great reputation, but alot of people are jumping on it http://www.techmeme.com/070501/p26#a070501p26

The point that you are making was explained in detail by some fellow in a post titled "Maybe Google Wanted to be Sued: YouTube and Plan B" http://www.michiknows.com/2007/03/14/maybe-google-wanted-to-be-sued-youtube-and-plan-b/

The post is really thought provoking and got Digged, slashdotted and reddited.

Do give it a look

Do check out this http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=18237

Philipp Lenssen is blogging live about the Google personalization workshop held at Googleplex, where all these news announcements were made by Marissa Meyers.

PG: you are really vigilant, honestly I have never seen more vigilance on an internet service.

Is it just you, or are there other people as well policing news.ycombinator ?

Keep up the good work

Ok I got it now.

I dont understand what the dead link means ?

I could still click on it and go to the site...

"Since valuations are made up, founders shouldn't care too much about them. That's not the part to focus on. In fact, a high valuation can be a bad thing. If you take funding at a premoney valuation of $10 million, you won't be selling the company for 20. You'll have to sell for over 50 for the VCs to get even a 5x return, which is low to them. More likely they'll want you to hold out for 100. But needing to get a high price decreases the chance of getting bought at all; many companies can buy you for $10 million, but only a handful for 100. And since a startup is like a pass/fail course for the founders, what you want to optimize is your chance of a good outcome, not the percentage of the company you keep." [Excerpt taken from the Essay]

This is exactly the reason Technorati is finding it hard to sell, whereas MyBlogLog got sold within no time and Newroo even before they could launch the product.

The fact that PG has been a founder and an investor just helps things.

Really nice video, loved the creativity

Ability to find out if the new article that I am posting has already been posted in the past or not. I wanted to post a few articles from venture blog but before posting I searched on Google using "title of article + news.ycombinator" as a query.

Nice question: I dont think it has changed my views, but I have seen others changing lanes after the news broke out

The consumer price index might hold true for hardware but how will you justify it for software ??

Well since they have come from the portal background. They wanted to show off alot of properties at the same time, so Yahoo matched the intentions more than Google`s vanilla homepage.

Well I know its a joke and I put it in the list to extend the joke a bit further.

haha you didnt realized that the author realized that its a joke :)

Really wicked, Is this done by YC itself or someone else came up with this idea.

I really love the sense of humor.

The good news is that, last time I checked the map Vienna was in Austria...

You got late on this one PG, I posted about Amazontunes a while back http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=16448

See the law suit filing here http://www.scribd.com/doc/34365/Amazons-Law-Suit-Against-Statsaholic

The law suit filing is here http://www.scribd.com/doc/34365/Amazons-Law-Suit-Against-Statsaholic

If MySpace has proved any point, it is that "Design doesnt counts".

You seem surprised as if MySpace was rivaling Apple in its design concepts

Yes there is no doubt about it, but it took them almost an year to launch it, which is quiet a long time

I certainly don’t believe that Microsoft couldn’t have outbid Google, I think that DoubleClick made a lot of sense with Google because its largest client AOL is also one of the largest clients and partners of Google. Going with Microsoft would have resulted in a potential lose of AOL. So may be they used Microsoft to pump their valuation and then let Google do the rest. Poor ol Microsoft, the once powerful company, that used to erode market share and valuations of others is now being used to increase just that. May be Microsoft really is dead now.