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The rumors about Google Travel are shooting back up again because at the moment, Google is looking for a Senior Account Executive, Travel Vertial in Chicago. The Times summarizes this and concludes that Google could be planning a cooperation with Orbitz....

While taking a look at the logfiles for a FTP-server I noticed that the Googlebot (recently?) is also interested in FTP-servers and registers there: Mar 26 06:54:40 pure-ftpd: (?@crawl-66-249-65-35.googlebot.com) [INFO] Neue Verbindung von crawl-66-249-65-35.googlebot.com. Mar 26 06:54:40 pure-ftpd: (?@crawl-66-249-65-35.googlebot.com) [INFO] Anonymer Benutzer angemeldet. Mar 26 06:54:41 pure-ftpd: (ftp@crawl-66-249-65-35.googlebot.com) [INFO] Logout. […]...

Paul Flaherty, founder of the first searchengine AltaVista, has passed away at the age of 42 due to a heartattack. The searchengine AltaVista, which was developed during his time at DEC, was market leader in the early days of the Internet and was bought by Yahoo! in 2003....