When Newsweek arrived in my mailbox, I squealed outloud (on my country road while the doggie went potty) to see cuties Larry Page and Sergey Brin on the cover. Later, I cuddled up under blankets after the kids were asleep and my mate was glued to his computer and inhaled their story like a schoolgirl gawking at Teen Magazine.

I will never win a date with Sergey or Larry (to be honest, I’m already matched up with a dark eyed, dark haired younger guy), but I wouldn’t mind working for a company that allows dogs in the office and offers free lunch to employees. But, flirting doesn’t get you in the door with these guys. Brilliant minds that can see into the future does. As annoyed as I get with Google-Land and the whole SEO cat and mouse game, they DO deliver great search results.

The Newsweek article, All Eyes on Google doesn’t deliver any real news to those who already stay on top of search engines. There is, however, a related story called Little Engines That Can that talks about Groxis, Eurekster, Dipsie, Brightplanet, Quigo and Mooter. (Do you ever get the feeling people name companies after their pets?)

From the lead story,
    &nbsp“Every minute, worldwide, in 90 languages, the index of this Internet-based search engine created by these Stanford doctoral dropouts is probed more than 138,000 times. In the course of a day, that’s over 200 million searches of 6 billion Web pages, images and discussion-group postings.”

Which, of course, impressed me even more than the two sexy Google billionaire hunks on the cover that caused a brief ruckus of the heart to yours truly on a rural country road in the middle of nowhere, while her faithful doggie companion did his duty nearby. Sorta puts things in perspective… when you really think about it.