I suppose this could be a good thing in some ways, but it's one less excuse to not create a Flash-based abomination.

"What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?

Michael Zimmer discusses how applications that use the Twitter API can access friends-only feeds. While Twitter is often mocked as mundane, some users use it share identifying information like locations.

Via Slashdot, this story provides a humorous analysis of the search "data set" AOL leaked to the web. I have to confess that I sometimes make "Basket Case" style searches, then click on blog results, just to make people wonder.

The folks from Bloglines and Ask.com are unilaterally introducing the "access:restriction" tag for RSS and Atom feeds. Their crawlers will not index feeds marked with this tag, providing a modicum of privacy for personal blogs.

This site searches tags across several folksonomy-enabled sites.

Google's April Fool's prank this year is pretty funny, especially the line about "I'm feeling lucky."

transcriptions of comics for Web search.

Multilingual Wikipedia search engine. The site was down when I tried to load it.

Because Google values "original content" over reprints, search engine optimization businesses are paying underemployed writers to recast articles to spam the search engine.

Ars Technica article on speculation that Google will get into the bookmarking business.

Side-by-side searches for "tiananmen" in google.com and google.cn.

Explores the political economy of search engines with a nice level of technical detail.