The story isn’t that Google has found 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs on the Web. It’s that there are many times more that Google’s engineers haven’t bothered to chase after. Always remember that when you search Google, you’re not searching the actual Internet. You’re searching a bunch of archives at Google with data plucked from the Internet — such as the Google News database, which I’ve been told their lawyers forbade from including either Drudge Report or Valleywag. That makes Google News the world’s largest searchable repository of stale, second-hand rumors and barely rewritten pr
The New York Times reports that between shots of hard liquor at the office yesterday, one Lehman employee shouted: “Are they going to take my BlackBerry? Come on, come get it.” Oh, they will. Research in Motion’s BlackBerry sales were already disappointing in August. With Lehman expected to lay off most of its 29,000 Lehman employees, Merill Lynch and Bank of America 
New York’s most successful tech company is financial information provider Bloomberg, which somehow manages to charge users thousands of dollars a year per subscription for access to the terminals that every Wall Street trader has on their desk. But with Lehman cutting 29,000 and Bank of America cutting another 20,000, Bloomberg’s already low-volume business just got smaller at time 
The benefit of a merger like Bank of America and Merrill Lynch is that the new company can combine their profits and cut redundant costs. Unfortunately for IP telephony provider Cisco, it’s one of those redundant costs. After flirting with Avaya for a couple of years, Merrill Lynch 
On February 27, 2007 Salesforce.com announced its largest deal ever, 
Investment bank Marlin and Associates 
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