Google is toying with modifying their search page. The more they creep away from the idealistic grad student ethos that distinguished them, the more wary I become. We have seen this before; despite their best intentions, web sites with no visible means of income always start out clean and simple and end up breaking your heart.

This new Google looks okay. They haven’t gone off the rails yet, he said as the Flash ad for King Kong jumped off of Yahoo at him unbidden for the third time today. (At least it doesn’t roar, I guess.) I actually find myself much more troubled bythe guy’s idea of a good test search; hasn’t he read that the government’s been sniffing around Google’s search data? Somebody trying to get a visit?