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July 30, 2004

The Google IPO Site Is Live...

larry.ipopreso.jpgGentlemen, start your engines....once you input your zip code and state (for US residents only though no verification so far is made), there is a bunch of fun stuff here.

A management presentation in text and video....featuring Eric, Larry, and Sergey....

The video is grainy but fine. After some legal stuff and a short intro from Eric, the video is set up as a Q&A with Larry and Sergey to start. It's really quite striking how similar Larry and Sergey's voices and cadences are. They are clearly playing it very straight, but address the same major questions as the S-1. Then Eric gives an overview of the Google business, insisting Google is first and foremost driven by technology. Then George Reyes, the CFO comes in and goes over the numbers and the auction process.

Hat Tip: Gary.

July 28, 2004

Interesting Analysis of the Google/Overture Suit

As you will recall, Overture sued Google back in 2002 for allegedly infringing its patented ad matching technology. This suit has been pretty quiet for a while, but internetnews.com's Susan Kuchinskas has a good piece on where the suit stands and the key issues apparently informing it. Particularly interesting is this passage:

As Google's IPO approaches, the rivals are waiting for a critical ruling by Judge Jeffrey White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. His so-called Markman order will define key words in the patent, drawing lines of battle.

"[A] Markman ruling defines the terms in the claim, which in turn define the scope of the invention, how broad or how narrow it is," said Lee Bromberg, an intellectual property attorney with Bromberg & Sunstein. "It's customary for each side to try to pick out certain important terms and to argue for their view of how they ought to be defined," he continued. "It's the judge's job to decide what those terms mean. Sometimes the judge can define a term in a way that either establishes infringement or makes it impossible for infringement."

In this case, the Markman hearing focused on two key terms: "database" and "search result list."

According to its legal briefs, Overture wants to define "database" as "a collection of related data, organized in such a way that its contents can be accessed, managed, and updated by a computer." Google has a counter-argument for that, but it asked the court to hide its argument from the public, citing trade secrets.

As far as what a "search result list" consists of, Overture claims that search result lists can include banner ads. This interpretation would draw AdWords into infringement territory.

Google argued that a search result list is an ordered series of entries and "inherently excludes banner ads and other items that are not responsive to the searcher's search."

The judge must decide whether AdWords are more like banner ads or more like search results, since they are delivered in response to the searcher's search.

It's interesting that Google wants to define "search result list" to "inherently exclude banner ads and other items that are not responsive to the searcher's search." It's philosophically consistent with the company's long standing claim that search results must be independent of editorial or organic results. Yahoo, on the other hand, has long taken the stance that the two can and should be intermingled.

While it's true that a searcher is not looking for specific ads when typing in a request, it's also true that the ads are directly responsive to a searcher's request. It's all in how the judge defines it. And upon the definitive head of these pins, billions of market value may well dance.

$12.5 Billion to $95 million. Ouch.

logo_lycos.gifEarly reports indicate Terra has sold Lycos to an unnamed South Korean company for $95 million. Terra bought the company for $12.5 billion in 2000. Holy sh*t. Reminds me of AltaVista....

July 27, 2004

MSFT Newsbot: Take That, Google News

msnbc_bantop_w_triangle MSFT launches Google News competitor today, Newsbot. Reviews from Greg Linden (of competitor and original Findory) here. Cnet coverage here. Chris Sherman's take here.

Related: AP is looking to get into the same game....

Overture's Search Optimizer

overtureOverture today unveiled its Search Optimizer, company officials gave me an overview of it yesterday. This tool - built on top of their Marketing Console and an extension of the technology Overture/Yahoo acquired with Key Lime - is aimed at search marketers who manage a lot of keywords - in the hundreds, if not thousands. It provides one analytic view of a campaign, and has an automated feature that, based on business rules you input, will optimize your campaigns for you. I'm no expert in this field, but I find it a worthy development in that it addresses the extraordinary complexity which has become a reality in search marketing these days. I suggested they make it free, but for now they're charging an average of $500 a month for the service.

As opposed to the blunt instrument of, say, TV buys, the numbers trend toward the infinite when you are managing thousands of keywords against scores of creative executions in multiple channels (ie Google, Yahoo, FindWhat, etc) across demographic, behavioral, daypart, and other variables. And it will only get more complex in the future. Smaller firms (such as Key Lime) have sprouted up which focus on addressing this issue (and they keep getting bought), but it's good to see Yahoo also in the game. I imagine Google will need to respond in kind.

By the way, if anyone has experience using this or similar tools to manage a lot of complexity, and has an extraordinary story to tell of how your marketing plans/return/approach shifted due to them, I'd like to talk to you for my book. jbat at battellemedia dot com, thanks!

ClickZ's coverage.

July 26, 2004

Watch the Road Show?

I've heard rumors of a Google IPO roadshow via webcast lately, but dismissed them as there are so many regulatory hurdles to such an event, it probably won't happen. However, Gary recently posted his monthly list of domains registered by Google, and while it's still uncertain we'll be able to tune into a Google road show, the domains they've grabbed certainly seem to imply the folks at Google have thought about it...

video-1pogoogle.com              
1pogoogle.com         
ip0google.com       
video-ipo-google.com        
video-ipogoogle.com        
videoipo-google.com        
videoipogoogle.com        
www-ipo-google.com        
www-ipogoogle.com       
wwwipo-gooogle.com  
video-ip0google.com        
video1p0google.com         
video1pogoogle.com         
videoip0google.com        
www-1p0google.com        
www-1pogoogle.com
www-ip0google.com        
www1p0google.com        
www1pogoogle.com
wwwip0go1p0google.com
video-1p0google.com

Update: JH points out that the Journal took the time to read the entire filing, of course, and:

In another indication of its unconventional plans, Google disclosed that it will offer a "virtual" roadshow on a Web site, and included a transcript of the presentation in its SEC filing. Google said the site (ipo.google.com) will begin accepting investor registrations in the coming days. The registration period, expected to begin as early as today, will last about five business days, according to a person familiar with the matter. Once the registration period has closed, Google will accept bids for as many as 10 business days, according to people familiar with the situation. Then it will determine the offering price, with the shares expected to begin trading roughly two to three weeks from now, according to these people.

The MyDoom Attack(s)

Gary and others alert me to the depth and approach taken by what Andy has noted seems to be denial of service attacks on Google - in fact, it's a virus that uses search engines in a clever and rather simple way to find more addresses. From a message forwarded to me by Gary (full text in continuation below):

MyDoom.O searches user files (DOC TXT HTM and HTML) for domain names, then
uses search engines (Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo and Google) to search for
"e-mail" and the harvested domain in order to gain access to other email
addresses.

There is a strong likelihood that web-based lists such as phone books,
memberships, discussion boards and general user home pages will be
harvested by the machine and in turn infect others.

A search on Google using the same "e-mail" + domain method has generated a
"Forbidden" message, which may indicate activity on the part of the search
engines to thwart the virus.

----- Forwarded message from MailingLists@messagelabs.com -----
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:13:59 GMT
From: MailingLists@messagelabs.com
Reply-To: MailingLists@messagelabs.com
Subject: MessageLabs Virus Advisory: W32/MyDoom.O-mm
To: Alerts Subscriber

MyDoom.O Designed to Target Search Engines

New York, NY – July 26, 2004 (3:00 pm ET) - MessageLabs, the leading
provider of managed email security services to businesses worldwide, is
advising computer users that W32.Mydoom.O contains multiple search engine
URLs and is using them to harvest additional domain email addresses.


MyDoom.O searches user files (DOC TXT HTM and HTML) for domain names, then
uses search engines (Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo and Google) to search for
"e-mail" and the harvested domain in order to gain access to other email
addresses.


There is a strong likelihood that web-based lists such as phone books,
memberships, discussion boards and general user home pages will be
harvested by the machine and in turn infect others.


A search on Google using the same "e-mail" + domain method has generated a
"Forbidden" message, which may indicate activity on the part of the search
engines to thwart the virus.


“Because MyDoom.O contains web site links and directs recipients to
specific and targeted sites, this virus is in essence creating distributed
Denial of Service attacks against Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo and Google,”
said Mark Sunner, Chief Technology Officer of MessageLabs.


The specific URLs contained in MyDoom.O are:

http://search.lycos.com/default.asp?lpv=1&loc=searchhp&tab=web&query=%s

http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=%s&kgs=0&kls=0

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%s&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%s


According to initial intelligence now circulating, MyDoom.O can also
harvest emails from any Outlook Windows active on the compromised machine.
This will lead to additional propagation via SMTP even after a peak
infection period.


General Details

Name: W32/MyDoom.O-mm
Number of copies intercepted so far: 23,000 within first five hours
Time & date first captured: July 26, 2004; 4:40 AM ET
Origin of first intercepted copy: UK

MyDoom.O is a mass-mailing worm with an SMTP engine that sends emails to
addresses harvested from infected machines. The sender’s From: email
address is forged, and therefore does not indicate the true identity of
the sender. MyDoom.O may also spoof from the mailer-daemon@ address,
which is typically used to indicate a delivery failure, thus enhancing its
social engineering trickery.

The executable file is approximately 27,648 bytes in size. The virus is
also packed with UPX v1.0x and stored in a ZIP attachment.

NB: The virus is also being referred to as: MyDoom.M, I-Worm.Mydoom.M,
I-Worm.Mydoom. R, and W32/Mydoom.L.

File Types:
- PIF
- SCR
- DOC
- EXE
- HTM

Email Characteristics
From: Spoofed email address (including mailer-daemon@,
noreply@)
Subject: Random (see below)
Text: Various
Size: 27,648 bytes

Subject
· hi
· delivery failed
· Message could not be delivered
· Mail System Error - Returned Mail
· Delivery reports about your e-mail
· Returned mail: see transcript for details
· Returned mail: Data format error instruction
· MAILER-DAEMON
· "Mail Administrator"
· "Automatic Email Delivery Software"
· "Post Office"
· "The Post Office"
· "Bounced mail"
· "Returned mail"
· "Mail Delivery Subsystem"

Detection
MessageLabs detected all strains of this virus proactively, using its
unique and patented Skeptic™ predictive heuristics technology.

About MessageLabs
MessageLabs is the leading provider of managed email security services to
businesses worldwide. The company currently protects more than 8,500
businesses around the world from email threats such as viruses, spam and
other unwanted content before they reach their networks and without the
need for additional hardware or software. Powered by a global network of
control towers that currently spans 13 data centers in the United States,
the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia and Hong Kong,
MessageLabs scans millions of emails a day on behalf of customers such as
The British Government, The Bank of New York, Bertelsmann, Bic, CSC, Conde
Nast Publications, EMI Music, Diageo, Orange, Random House, SC Johnson and
StorageTek. The company has more than 300 channel partners, including BT,
Cable & Wireless, CSC, IBM, MCI and Unisys and publishes real-time data
and analysis on viruses, spam, phishing scams and other email security
threats. MessageLabs’ statistics and experts are frequently quoted in
media outlets around the world and its executives regularly speak at
industry conferences. For more information on MessageLabs and its
industry-leading email security and management services, please visit
www.messagelabs.com.

About MessageLabs Intelligence
Through MessageLabs Intelligence, the company provides continuous and
regularly updated information, statistics and analysis on a range of email
security threats worldwide. MessageLabs Intelligence is based on live data
feeds pulled from our global network of control towers that scan millions
of emails daily. It is widely referenced and considered to be the latest,
most comprehensive data available on email security threats.


Search Africa

jwlogoI know very little, no, less than very little, about the state of search in Africa. But Jamboweb is the first site to cross my desk in that space, so I'll bite and let you all know about it...

New S1-A; "GOOG" to Price as Early as Today

nasdaqGoogle filed another amended S-1 today, this article from the FT claims the company will price its shares shortly, also points out that there has been considerable (and predictable) friction between it and Wall St. It also notes that shares in net companies have tumbled lately.

So what's new in the S-1A? "We anticipate that the initial public offering price will be between $108.00 and $135.00 per share." They are selling more than 14 million shares, and individuals are selling another 10.5 million. Proposed symbol? GOOG. There's probably a lot more, but I haven't time to read the whole thing right now...

Update: The WSJ (sub required) notes that a senior Google official is in trouble with the Feds for some past life stuff:

Google also disclosed that David C. Drummond, its vice president of corporate development, secretary and general counsel since February 2002, was advised by the SEC staff this month that it intends to recommend that the SEC bring a civil injunction action against him, alleging violation of federal securities laws. Google said the SEC's recommendation arises out of his prior employment as chief financial officer of SmartForce, and "involves certain disclosure and accounting issues relating to SmartForce's financial statements." None of the allegations involve Google, the company said.

July 24, 2004

Google Hit With Another Suit...

Google has been hit with another lawsuit....this one by an ex employee who claims age discrimination.

And in other legal news, Google's challenge to "Froogles.com" suffered a setback this past week, calling into question whether Froogle.com can continue as a trademark.

(hat tip to Gary, who has recently taken a job as SEW's news editor, congrats!)

July 22, 2004

EBay and Search: Just an Example...

...of how important search is to commerce. Rafat finds this job listing....

The eBay Natural Search Initiative is a cross-functional effort to allow eBay pages to rank well in natural search engines. The Internet Marketing team is looking for a motivated individual to manage the companys natural search projects while developing the overall natural search strategy. As a key member of the team running one of the industry's largest online advertising programs, you will play a vital role in driving the growth of eBay's revenue and profitability....

This trend noted previously here and here....

Blog Search = Political Analysis

From Dave Sifry's blog (he's the founder of Technorati):

A few minutes ago CNN announced that Technorati will be providing real-time analysis of the political blogosphere at next week's Democratic National Convention. I will be on-site in CNN's convention broadcast center, along with Mary Hodder, and I'll be providing regular on-air commentary on what bloggers are saying about politics and the convention. And on Sunday, July 25, we'll launch a new section of our site for political coverage: politics.technorati.com. This site will make it easy for bloggers,
journalists, and anyone interested in politics to see the postings of the most linked-to political bloggers, to track the ideas with the fastest-growing buzz, and to monitor conversations in thousands of other political blogs. CNN.com will link to this site, and we'll be updating the CNN site with the latest from the blogosphere.

July 19, 2004

Blinkx to Launch

b.gifThe parade of would-be Google dethroners continues, with the launch of Blinkx this week. In the extended entry is the release, I posted on it earlier here...

For Immediate Release

By Making The Engine Invisible, Blinkx Ushers in A New Search Era

New Web and Desktop Search Tool Brings Search Results Before You Ask


JULY 22, 2004 -- SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- A free new search tool that thinks and links for you, eliminates the need for keywords or complex search methods, easily finding the information you seek whether it is on the Web, in the news or buried deep within files on your PC.

Launched today, Blinkx (www.blinkx.com) uses the latest self-learning algorithms to understand the context of what you are reading on your computer screen, such as documents, e-mails, Web sites, news articles, blogs and even videos. As you scroll through the text, Blinkx works in the background to instantly connect to related information on the Web and on your PC.

According to Blinkx co-founder, Kathy Rittweger, Blinkx is more than a search engine: “When we were developing Blinkx, we learned that people really just want to get to their destination. They’re not interested in the machinations and complexity of the engine…so we simply put the engine back under the hood where it belongs.”

“By eliminating the mechanics of search, such as keywords or sorting through dozens of unqualified results, we drive users more quickly to their goal: finding something, even if they didn’t know it was there!”

Blinkx Gives PC Users Complete Control Over Information on the Web and on the Desktop


Blinkx is FREE to download at www.blinkx.com. Once loaded, Blinkx continually reviews what you are reading and sweeps the Web and your computer – silently and in the background – to generate links related to the concepts. These links change and refresh as you scroll through your information. By highlighting a word or paragraph, Blinkx will restrict its search only to information related to the selected text.

There are two ways to work with Blinkx:

Reactive Search generates recommended links without the user having to do anything – just click the mouse on the toolbar on top of the screen and a pop-up menu provides a collection of links to related information and summaries of their content.

Proactive Search allows users to click on an icon that rests in the system tray to input ideas using a natural language query (or old-fashioned keywords) to manually search for related concepts. These concepts are delivered according to where the information is available, on the Web, in the news or on your computer. You can even specifically search for things just in your email, or for only Word documents etc.

Blinkx Features

Blinkx channels scout for information in all the places relevant to you. Links to information are provided through five dedicated Blinkx channels:

• General Web sites
• Web-based news sources
• Web-based video and audio sources
• Web logs (blogs)
• Your local hard drive

The company will continually be introducing new Blinkx channels dedicated to commercial Web-based information, products and service providers.

Blinks scouts for information in all locations relevant to you. Blinkx not only searches the Web, but your local hard drive. In the near future, Blinkx will offer the ability to search other data locations, such as an attached hard drive or networked PC.
Blinkx scouts for information in all digital formats relevant to you. When searching various data locations, Blinkx will search for over 200 media types, such as Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, attachments to e-mails, Acrobat PDF files and even video and audio clips. 

Blinkx respects privacy. Blinkx does not collect any personal information about a user. The application is stored entirely on your computer and searches in an outbound fashion. As a result, we do not collect information about what is on your machine, where you have visited --not even an e-mail address or a cookie. We simply provide links based on what you see on your screen.


Today, Digital Information… Tomorrow, Digital Lives

As users grow to commonly access more and more information digitally through their PCs, Blinkx will evolve with them, allowing them to intuitively and immediately access other media such as DVDs, music, digital photographs or home movies.
“With a future where much of our life will be digital and portable, Blinkx will continue to evolve to reflect the growing need to make sense and link together all our digital world,” said Suranga Chandratillake, co-founder of Blinkx.
About Blinkx
blinkx (www.blinkx.com) is a new company that is extending the way people find and use information on the internet and their own computer. In addition to traditional search such as that from Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Ask Jeeves (Nasdaq: ASKJ), Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO), and AOL, Blinkx understands and links relevant information anywhere and in any format: on the Web, in the news or on the desktop - automatically, accurately and quickly. Founded in 2003, Blinkx is a privately held firm headquartered in San Francisco.

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Wide Open?

Cnet today runs a piece on click fraud, the practice of driving revenue through fake clicks on paid search links. This has been something of a whistling-past-the-graveyard issue for the entire paid search field (see here and here). Stefanie Olsen reports. Worth a read.

....some marketing executives estimate that up to 20 percent of fees in certain advertising categories continue to be based on nonexistent consumers in today's search industry.

In one recent example of the problem, law enforcement officials say a California man created a software program that he claimed could let spammers bilk Google out of millions of dollars in fraudulent clicks. Authorities said he was arrested while trying to blackmail Google for $150,000 to hand over the program. He was indicted by a California jury in June.

July 15, 2004

MSN Buys Lookout

lookout.jpg News: Microsoft has purchased Lookout, an Outlook mail search application (it also searches your desktop.) Hmmm....indeed.

July 14, 2004

As We May Rant

Another rehash on "the future of search" - this one from Fast Company. OK, ready? It's...contextual, behavioral targeting, and local. Whoa. I have to keep in mind that the readers of larger magazines are not search enthusiasts, but still...the cliches ("Meet the future of advertising!"), the careworn anecdotes (they trotted out the Adsense-displays-luggage-ads-next-to-suitcase-murder story, gleefuly planted by Overture last summer), the lack of analysis. Is this how you justify shipping atoms around the nation? At least my "intent over content" meme gets a boost, from Charlene Li, at Forrester. "You could never target intent before, in any medium," says Li, capturing what's exciting about the new method. "You just put your message out there around content that seemed likely to attract the right people and hoped it worked."

Glad to see that idea spreading.

July 13, 2004

Report: Google Audio/Visual Search Coming

The NY Post reports that Larry and Sergey talked up an upcoming multimedia search capability while at the Allen & Co. retreat this week.

Google is planning to launch a new feature to allow users to scour the Internet for audio and video clips, The Post has learned.

The company has yet to announce plans for the new service, but Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made no secret of it during talks with investors and media executives at an annual retreat hosted by investment bank Allen & Co. in Sun Valley, Idaho...

...When it comes to multimedia searches, Mountain View, Calif.-based Google trails some of its competitors.

Yahoo's AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, already allows users to search for audio and video. Time Warner's AOL, which has paid-search partnership with Google, bought Singingfish earlier this year in a move to offer multimedia search capabilities.

In the past, Google and other search engines have expressed some trepidation about listing audio and video files because of legal concerns that some of the content may have been illegally copied and downloaded.

Google Acquires Picasa, Now I Can Say It...

picasaI've been waiting for an excuse to claim that Google was going to compete with Ofoto and everyone else in the photo handling biz, after all, it's one of the more intractable information/search problems we have, and it requires a massively scaled platform with sh*tloads of storage. Sound familiar? So today AP reports that Google purchased Picasa, which was Blogger's photo uploading partner. By the way, it's also an IdeaLab company, and IdeaLab is where Overture was born....so Bill Gross now has a bit of Google stock!

So now let me state the obvious: Google will compete in the photo management/storage/search/untangle-the-shoebox market. And by extension, let me state the not so obvious: I think travel is next.

Press release in extended entry below.

Tip o' the Hat: Andy.

Google Acquires Picasa

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - July 13, 2004 - Google Inc. today announced
it acquired Picasa, Inc., a Pasadena, Calif.-based digital photo
management company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

"Picasa enables users to easily manage and share digital
photographs, and its technologies complement Google's ongoing
mission to organize the world's information and make it universally
accessible and useful," said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president,
Product Management. "Picasa is an innovator in the field of digital
photography, and we're excited that the Picasa team is joining
Google."

Picasa was founded in October 2001. In May 2004, Picasa announced a
technology partnership with Google's Blogger service to make
publishing digital photos with Blogger faster and easier. Further
product integration plans have not been announced. Picasa users will
not experience any interruption in service.

About Google Inc.
Google is a global technology leader focused on improving the way
people connect with information. Google's innovations in web search
and advertising have made its website a top Internet destination and
its brand one of the most recognized in the world. Google maintains
the world's largest online index of websites and other content, and
Google makes this information freely available to anyone with an
Internet connection. Google's automated search technology helps
people obtain nearly instant access to relevant information from its
vast online index.

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Bitoogle

headerVia Google Blogoscoped, it's Google for BitTorrent; Bitoogle. Site was very very slow when I went...

July 1, 2004

Yahoo's New Search Results Page...

New Yahoo SERP(Logging in from BookLand with more news...) Yahoo has tweaked its search page....click on the gif at the left for a larger shot...this will fully populate Yahoo's servers by later this week, I'm told. The main changes: slightly muted colors, slightly cleaner design, and the "Related" searches have been moved and renamed "Also try..." This feature (which is not a new idea, but still, this is Yahoo...) was found to be very valuable but underutilized in its previous form. I think it's a neat feature, it adds another beat to the search process - rather like the "Did you mean?" approach in spellchecking. It's based on analysis of logfiles for possibly related searches.

According to the PR folk from whom this tip came, "This tool helps identify what the user intention is when they are searching and provides suggested search query terms to assist the searcher when he/she isn't exactly sure how to best phrase their query. This illustrates a crucial reason why Yahoo redesigned these pages, to get closer to what the searcher's intent is, and to provide better search results that are more relevant and comprehensive through enhanced presentation."

I'm also told that Windows users can see the new interface by clicking on the link above the "web" icon in Yahoo Search. I can't see it, of course, as I'm a non-conforming Mac Safari guy (and for some odd reason Firefox is crashing on my new machine...)

I note that the PR folks are playing to my weakness for anything in which user intent is seen as currency. Time will tell if they've done a good job on relevance and UI....

Update: Yahoo has given me a new URL that shows the new UI: http://new.search.yahoo.com/...

Iowa Electronic Markets Trades In Google IPO Contracts

iem_logoIEM has been making interesting markets for years, most notably in Presidential election outcomes. Now they are making a market in Google's future IPO. There are two such markets, described here and here and quoted in real time here.

The upshot: the market's only been open for a few days, but it's already guessing that Google will close on its first day with a market cap of between $25 to $39 billion. That's the bid/ask spread. I've sent email to a couple folks I know to see if they can ascertain any more insights...

Thanks, Tipster Who Will Remain Anonymous!

So That's Why No One Is Asking to Be My Friend Anymore...

Not a happy thing - Wired News reports Orkut is causing legal headaches at Google. Lawsuit: Google Stole Orkut Code.

The suing company is Affinity Engines.