WordPress makes it drop-dead easy to start a site. Take my advice and go do it.

Increasingly, search is our mechanism for how we understand ourselves, our world, and our place within it.

The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google's crawlers can't climb.

It's become something of a ritual - every year, Google publishes its year-end summary of what the world wants, and every year I complain about how shallow it is, given what Google really knows about what the world is up to.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.