Sunday, May 27, 2007

Sunday, Part Deux

You won’t read a finer essay this Memorial Day weekend than this one by Gerard Van der Leun. The lede:
On Living with the Loss of a Son in Wartime. Written and first published on Memorial Day, 2003

MY NAME, "GERARD VAN DER LEUN," IS AN UNUSUAL ONE. So unusual, I've never met anyone else with the same name. I do know of one other man with the name, but we've never met. I've seen his name in an unusual place. This is the story of how that happened.
Read the whole thing. I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.

And speaking of Memorial Day messages…Michael Yon has a good one, direct from Anbar Province. Yon needs no introduction from me, as most of the folks who stop by EIP are well aware of who he is and what he does. ‘Nuff said.

Have you ever wondered how much money search engines (and Google, in particular) make? Well, here’s an answer of sorts…even though it’s largely theoretical.

Each 1% of search market share is worth over $100M in revenues - Here is the math. There were 7.3 billion searches performed in March of 2007. One percent of that is 73 million searches times $0.12 revenue per search or $8.76M per month. That translates to $105.1M in annualized revenue.
And Google owns 50%—half!—of the search market. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: They’ll own the world, eventually.

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