strange that google seems to have gone full circle.

at a time when search engines were going down the fussy portal route along came an engine with a stylish minimalist interface. now what’s happened? that very same engine is now inching down the portal route.

with all the extensions, the power is rapidly leaving the html publisher and going into the hands of the browser.

in a way you could say that blogging does this. rss feeds taking us one step further to just pumping info, sans noise, around.

interesting… looks like google is in keeping with chinese censorship laws. a case of binning principles in favour of chinese adspace?

important as could use the info to geo locate people and serve up local content: