Gates: "Google Kicked our Butts"!

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Bill Gates: "Google kicked our butts"

Bill Gates: "Google kicked our butts" 01/26/2004 07:41 PM
The market is question is Internet search engines, and the new member is none other than Google.com. "[They] kicked our butts," said ...

Search Engine Death Penalty: WhenU
Kicked Off Of Yahoo And Google

Search Engine Death Penalty: WhenU
Kicked Off Of Yahoo And Google 05/13/2004 10:40 PM
WhenU, the adware/spyware company that already has quite a bit of controversy surrounding it for both (a) sneaking their software onto users' machines and (b) then popping up competitive ads when surfers visit websites has now been removed from both Yahoo and Google searches after it was determined that they were using tricks to boost their rankings in both. WhenU blames an outside search engine optimizer who they hired, but it does raise some issues. Considering the power that sites like Google and Yahoo have over anyone finding your site, how long will it be until we hear about a lawsuit when someone sues a search engine for kicking their site out of search results?

Fools Kicking Butts!

Fools Kicking Butts! 03/17/2005 04:18 AM
Fools Kicking Butts Day is March 25. Can you do it?

2theadvocate.com: News - No ifs, ands or
butts 05/07/04

2theadvocate.com: News - No ifs, ands or
butts 05/07/04 05/08/2004 12:37 AM
Politicos OK bill that makes wearing butt-exposing pants a crime .. Panel advances bill to ban saggy pants .. passing a law against saggy trousers .. approved by a state House panel .. Low-Rider Law Moves Forward

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Gates on Google

Gates on Google 11/17/2003 01:56 PM
A statement from the main man at Microsoft will put this to bed. ""We've never been in any talks with...

Gates v Google

Gates v Google 02/06/2005 01:11 AM
Telegraph Feb 6 2005 2:43AM GMT

Gates vs Google

Gates vs Google 02/01/2005 09:50 PM
Telegraph Feb 2 2005 1:55AM GMT

Gates: No Google talk

Gates: No Google talk 11/17/2003 10:26 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 9:08AM ET

Gates Says : We Never Talked to Google

Gates Says : We Never Talked to Google 11/17/2003 05:29 AM
"We've never been in any talks with Google about any acquisition thing in any way, shape or form," Gates told USA TODAY last week."

Gates On Google : We WILL Catch Them!

Gates On Google : We WILL Catch Them! 02/10/2004 02:44 AM
A new article quotes Gates as saying, "We took an approach that I now realize was wrong," he said of his company's earlier decision to ignore the search market. But, he added pointedly, "we will catch them."

Gates: Microsoft Never Tried to Buy
Google

Gates: Microsoft Never Tried to Buy
Google 11/18/2003 04:21 PM

Gates: We never talked to Google

Gates: We never talked to Google 11/17/2003 04:16 AM
USA Today Nov 17 2003 2:33AM ET

Gates vows to take on Google

Gates vows to take on Google 06/28/2004 11:23 PM
Courier Mail Jun 29 2004 3:05AM GMT

Gates in GBP10bn Google bid talks

Gates in GBP10bn Google bid talks 10/31/2003 01:56 PM
This Is Money Oct 31 2003 12:27PM ET

Gates vs. Google: Search and Destroy

Gates vs. Google: Search and Destroy 04/18/2005 10:04 AM
Fortune Apr 18 2005 2:11PM GMT

Google founders trump Gates in U.K.
media elite

Google founders trump Gates in U.K.
media elite 07/12/2004 02:20 PM
Larry Page and Sergie Brin join a newspaper's top 100 power list, while the Microsoft chairman slips off.

What to Do When You are Kicked Out of
Adsense

What to Do When You are Kicked Out of
Adsense 03/24/2005 03:59 PM
A long step-by-action-step tutorial on your recourse when booted from AdSense.

What to do when you're kicked out of
Adsense

What to do when you're kicked out of
Adsense 03/29/2005 08:20 PM

"kicked out of school"

"kicked out of school" 02/14/2004 03:42 AM

I Kicked Barbie's Ass

I Kicked Barbie's Ass 11/20/2002 10:40 AM
That was my night at work. It was a cold and rainy day so people stayed home and didn't shop, so work was rather slow

"courageously kicked"

"courageously kicked" 09/07/2004 03:14 AM

Kicked out of the (opera) house

Kicked out of the (opera) house 04/22/2004 06:41 PM
Although the current 2003-04 season of New York City's Metropolitan Opera is winding down, there were two provocative additions to the existing repertoire. Previously banned and restricted from the New York stage (as well as other opera houses throughout the world), the MET offered new productions of La Juive and Salome:

Last performed during the 1935-36 season, the MET reprised Jacques Fromental Halévy's 1835 opera La Juive (The Jewess) after a 68-year absence. Set in 15th-century Constance, the story concerns a Jewish jeweler and his daughter's forbidden romance with a Christian Emperor’s son. The implications of the libretto assert religious intolerance, betrayal, and persecution of Jews, where anti-semitism is the motivating force. Conflicting theories debate whether it was pulled in the 1930's to quell the conflagration of anti-semitism, or if trends were merely shifting away from French opera.

Also reprised was Salome, Richard Strauss's 1905 opera based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 play of the same name. During the performance, Salome performs the highly erotic Dance of the Seven Veils for her stepfather Herod, striping completely naked, and then molesting the severed head of St. John. During the 1907 premier at the MET, the production was so scandalous, that it was cancelled after the first performance. It was then permanently banned until 1934, and has only been reprised four times in past 70 years. The new production continues to reflect on past debates, flagging the licentious strip tease and immoral relationship between Herod and teenaged Salome.

Kicked Out Of Parliament For Looking At
A Camera Phone

Kicked Out Of Parliament For Looking At
A Camera Phone 12/18/2003 03:30 PM
The latest slap down for daring to pick up a camera phone and (gasp! oh no!) look at it, was over in the UK where an MP was thrown out for checking his phone to see who had called. Someone noticed this, and informed the speaker, who kicked him out of the chamber for "using a camera". Except, he wasn't using the camera. Just looking to see who called. As he points out, if he wanted to use the camera it would be pretty obvious. Once again, you have to wonder why there's so much backlash against just having a camera phone, when the folks involved aren't doing anything bad with at all. Why are we making it a crime to possess tools that have plenty of perfectly good uses - just because there's the potential to misuse it?

Assmonkeying Mail.app needs to be kicked
to death...

Assmonkeying Mail.app needs to be kicked
to death... 09/25/2004 03:58 PM

So Mail.bloody.app has just chewed up and spat out around two-years of e-mail from my lovely Mac and not even Danny O'Brien could fix it for me, so that's pretty bloody annoying. And of course while I used to take regular back-ups, it's been just long enough after the last time that this happened for me to (1) stop taking back-ups several months ago and (2) have deleted the back-ups I had made to make space for other crap.

Which leaves me in the unenviable position of asking anyone and everyone who was expecting anything from me or had planned to do something with me or with whom I've been talking recently in pretty much any capacity to get back in touch and remind me where we'd got to in the whole bloody conversation. I feel a bit like the guy in Memento at the moment, only on a much much larger (but no less fatal) timescale.

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Judge Kicked Off Bench for Drunkenness
(AP)

Judge Kicked Off Bench for Drunkenness
(AP) 05/25/2004 06:00 PM
AP - A judge was kicked off the bench Tuesday for flagrant and repeated drunkenness while on it.

Web cam watchers help woman kicked by
horse

Web cam watchers help woman kicked by
horse 01/17/2004 11:08 PM

Oh yippie! We're gonna get our asses
kicked!

Oh yippie! We're gonna get our asses
kicked! 03/19/2003 10:44 PM
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com Resolution On Iraq Withdrawn, Effort Abandoned to Win U.N. Backing For War So let’s see, that’s us, Britain, and maybe Spain (though the Spanish might father more people than they kill) up against just about every...

Sean Parker kicked out of Plaxo

Sean Parker kicked out of Plaxo 04/21/2004 03:26 AM

Although I had some problems with the Plaxo model, I hate hearing stories like this. Sean Parker, the founder and visionary behind Plaxo was kicked out rather rudely by the VCs. I don't know the details, but it sounds bad.

San Jose Mercury

The company sent out an anonymous, terse statement that Parker is ``no longer with Plaxo,'' but called him a ``visionary, creative entrepreneur'' and ended with: ``We thank him for his hard work and wish him well.''

In reality, though, a source said Parker has been locked out, and everyone at the company has been instructed not to talk with Parker, except by way of the company's lawyer, Ray Hickson.

When contacted and asked whether this arrangement is ``normal,'' Hickson said: ``I can't discuss a client personnel matter with newspaper reporters.''

Parker himself issued a terse statement: ``While the company is moving to a new stage of its growth, the management team remains committed to executing my original vision,'' he said. ``The company remains in capable hands.''

I've founded several companies and as companies grow, the skills required to be the chief executive change. When I've founded (or helped found) companies in the past, I've usually stepped aside to allow someone with better administrative and sales skills to lead the company after it's up and running. This was the case with Digital Garage and PSINet Japan and to a certain extent Infoseek Japan. I seem to be the most useful getting things going, not running them.

As a VC/investor, I've seen my share of visionary CEOs who can't run the company, but we usually try to keep them involved in some way and stay on good terms so we can invest in their next good company. I don't see how you can continue being a VC in the valley being cruel to serial entrepreneurs.

Pierre Omidyar of eBay is probably one of the best examples of knowing when to bring on a real CEO, but staying involved as the founder. I think he and his investors were smart about this.

Ja son Calacanis blogs about this on thesocialsoftwareweblog

UK citizen database trial kicked off by
ONS tender

UK citizen database trial kicked off by
ONS tender 07/06/2004 03:12 AM
PublicTechnology.net Jul 6 2004 7:08AM GMT

GOP redistricting kicked out by Colorado
Supreme Court

GOP redistricting kicked out by Colorado
Supreme Court 12/02/2003 06:30 AM
Good news

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Dust kicked up by four wheelers can
choke the Earth

Dust kicked up by four wheelers can
choke the Earth 08/21/2004 07:29 AM
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Couple Kicked Off Flight Over Risque
Shirt (AP)

Couple Kicked Off Flight Over Risque
Shirt (AP) 08/01/2004 10:00 PM
AP - A couple returning home from a Costa Rican vacation was ejected from an American Airlines flight because the man was wearing a T-shirt depicting a bare breast.

Seal Clubbing 2005 kicked off in Canada

Seal Clubbing 2005 kicked off in Canada 03/30/2005 09:15 PM
Canada's seal hunt started yesterday and though I wondered if the numbers on the Protect Seals site were accurate, this somewhat gory and disturbing slideshow at Yahoo/AP news seems to support the high numbers of slaughter. There doesn't seem to be much you can do to stop seal clubbing in 2005, just boycotting Canadian seafood and calling congressfolks. Shame to see up to 300k seals killed for some fur coats -- seems so last century.

British MP kicked out of Parliament for
playing with his cameraphone

British MP kicked out of Parliament for
playing with his cameraphone 12/19/2003 11:54 AM
A British member of Parliament got himself kicked out of the House of Commons for playing with his cameraphone during a debate. The MP, Henry...

UK Soldiers Kicked Iraqi Prisoner to
Death - Report

UK Soldiers Kicked Iraqi Prisoner to
Death - Report 01/03/2004 08:35 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 3 2004 6:38PM ET

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest."

"A post about bill gates somehow fools a
whole lot of people into believing bill
gates posted the story, or is at least
reading the comments with rapt
interest." 04/16/2004 08:49 AM

Teen's "violent" stick-figure drawing
gets him kicked out of school

Teen's "violent" stick-figure drawing
gets him kicked out of school 11/13/2003 10:09 AM
Expulsion for stick figure violence .. DEEPENS: .. kidding

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Girl Kicked Out Of Prom For Wearing
Confederate Flag Sues

Girl Kicked Out Of Prom For Wearing
Confederate Flag Sues 12/22/2004 01:57 AM
G irl Kicked Out Of Prom For Wearing Confederate Flag Sues A girl who says it was always her dream to wear a confederate-themed dress to her prom arrived in a self-designed gown which incorporated the Confederate battle flag into its design. The school promptly removed her, and she is suing. The fate of her suit is somewhat uncertain. Lower federal courts have applied the Tinker test, which says that a school may restrict student expression when that expression may be disruptive. To win her suit, the girl will need to show that wearing a Confederate flag to your high school prom is not a disruptive act.

" Yahoo! News - Israeli ambassador
kicked out of Swedish museum after
vandalizing art "

" Yahoo! News - Israeli ambassador
kicked out of Swedish museum after
vandalizing art " 01/18/2004 09:22 PM

Grok Description matches for Gates: "Google Kicked our Butts"!
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Louisiana to ban saggy,
butt-crack-exposing pants

Louisiana to ban saggy,
butt-crack-exposing pants 05/07/2004 02:56 PM
File under "only in Louisiana" -- snip:

Wearing sagging or baggy pants that expose your underwear or buttocks would make you a criminal under a bill approved by a House panel Thursday. "I don't relish the idea of seeing the beginning of people's pubic hair," Westwego City Councilman Glenn Green told the House Criminal Justice Committee on Thursday. "I don't relish seeing the beginning of the crease of people's buttocks. And I don't enjoy watching young men letting their sexual organs show through their red or black silk underwear," Green said.

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Gun of the Pants

Gun of the Pants 12/28/2004 04:53 PM
You can't blame TV on rampant family sex abuse among the Amish. "Mary was grabbed in the bedroom, in the barn, in the outhouse, milking the cows in the morning, and on her way to school."

Pants-fu

Pants-fu 11/19/2003 10:34 AM
A pixelated stencil icon graffiti I saw on a telephone switch box when I was returning from the Posti...

No Pants Day 2003 is May 2nd

No Pants Day 2003 is May 2nd 05/06/2004 09:57 PM
No Pants Day 2004 is Friday, May 7th .. [-La web del "dia sin pantalones"] .. a holiday

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NES Controller Hot Pants

NES Controller Hot Pants 08/23/2004 08:53 AM

Nintendo Hotpants: Because It's Ever So Hard To Get a Nerd Into Bed. Available at your local Hot Topic, these hot pants are completely sold out online. Too bad Nintendo has never made a wireless controller that vibrates.

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Mr. Smarty Pants

Mr. Smarty Pants 02/18/2004 12:04 PM
It's common for pregnant women to dream they've given birth to an animal. According to a report by the New York Post, Winston Churchill's parrot is still alive. Charlie, a 104-year-old blue and gold female macaw, lives in southeast England and likes to curse Hitler. In the first century, Pliny the Elder claimed that mustard would improve lazy housewives. All of these "facts" and more can be found in the Mr. Smarty Pants Archive.

Party in My Pants

Party in My Pants 03/08/2004 11:23 PM
I'll admit it. There are nights that I want to feel "a little special, naughty, and very sexy." But I'm not clear on how a pair of size 34 Minnie Mouse underpants makes that happen. (03-04)

Smarty pants!

Smarty pants! 05/14/2004 01:26 PM
Where do you live, among a bastion of geeks, or sea of academia-phobes? US Census released the smartest cities, states, and counties with Seattle and Raleigh topping the cities. Also for those who are politically curious, of the top 15 states with Bachelor degrees 11 went to Gore, while 13 of the bottom 15 went to Bush.

I'm Not Wearing Any Pants

I'm Not Wearing Any Pants 10/28/2003 11:09 PM
Okay, things have been way too friggin' crazy lately. It's time to take off my trousers and celebrate a long-overdue, pointless, pantless day. Yes, No Pants Friday is in full effect. If you don't join me, I'm sending Sprocket to your house to hump your leg. Should I go as far as to prove it to the world? Well, so as not to drive traffic away immediately, check out my iSight by clicking the regular cam thumbnail over there in the sidebar. Let your hair down and just enjoy my tighty whities for a few minutes. But not for too long because... well, that's just freaky, dude....

Suing the Pants Off Spammers

Suing the Pants Off Spammers 05/12/2004 05:46 AM
Wired magazine asks Les Seagraves, EarthLink's chief privacy officer, about the wisdom of doing battle against spammers in court.

"caught with his pants down around his
ankles."

"caught with his pants down around his
ankles." 07/20/2004 02:40 PM

Louisiana may ban low-slung pants

Louisiana may ban low-slung pants 04/23/2004 09:40 AM

Louisiana May Ban Low-Slung Pants (AP)

Louisiana May Ban Low-Slung Pants (AP) 04/23/2004 06:39 AM
AP - People who wear low-slung pants that expose skin or "intimate clothing" would face a fine of up to $500 and possible jail time under a bill filed by a Jefferson Parish lawmaker.

Take my advice, or I'll spank you
without pants.

Take my advice, or I'll spank you
without pants. 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
A normal person wouldn't steal pituitaries, and other actual Hong Kong film subtitles. T-shirts , too. How can you use my intestines as a gift?

Oops, I Crapped My Pants

Oops, I Crapped My Pants 01/04/2004 06:59 PM
After meeting the author of 'Atlantis, Alien Visitation and Genetic Manipulation' (and subsequently reading it), I've embarked on an intellectual journey that's been... strange, to say the least. As noted in a recent post, I've been diving into similar writings that explore the idea that humans are actually extraterrestrial hybrids. Before you dismiss the idea outright, you might care to question all the unanswered questions. I personally believe that there's intelligent life out there - and that's exactly why it's choosing not to reveal itself to us outright. Some say Niburu is coming, others say that Planet X is nothing more than bad astronomy. Have YOU ever had a close encounter of the weird kind?...

It's like the broadcast flag... in your
pants!

It's like the broadcast flag... in your
pants! 12/02/2003 01:52 AM

"Does Madonna have the right to tell you how to dispose of your jeans? From the way Time Warner, the Gap stores, and eBay are acting, you'd think she does."

-- from the strange tale of not being allowed to sell a CD the Gap gave away to you.

Fancy-pants President

Fancy-pants President 07/13/2004 12:01 PM
"Is [President] Bush a Homo?" Those are Betty's words... not mine. [via tinmanic]

Man Jailed for Dropping Pants in Court
(AP)

Man Jailed for Dropping Pants in Court
(AP) 06/24/2004 04:11 PM
AP - A man has been jailed for six months on a contempt charge after dropping his pants and mooning a judge. Richard Brown, 38, as jailed Wednesday after an outburst in front of Superior Court Judge Patrick Carroll.

Mayor says don't air your pants in
public (Reuters)

Mayor says don't air your pants in
public (Reuters) 07/27/2004 04:06 AM
Reuters - Drying wet laundry in public will earn residents of Cyprus' capital Nicosia a fine later this year as authorities launch a drive to clean up the city's image, its mayor has said.

La. House Rejects Ban on Low-Slung Pants
(AP)

La. House Rejects Ban on Low-Slung Pants
(AP) 05/26/2004 03:02 PM
AP - The fashion police won't be coming to Louisiana. State lawmakers refused to make it a crime to wear low-slung pants in public that expose "undergarments or ... any portion of the pubic hair, cleft of the buttocks or genitals."

There's a movie in your pants, uh,
jeans, er...nevermind

There's a movie in your pants, uh,
jeans, er...nevermind 01/16/2004 10:57 AM
The first mention of the sequence GATTACA in the human genome is 14109 characters in. It will be several decades before science is able to...

Damnit, I left my PC in my other pair of
pants...

Damnit, I left my PC in my other pair of
pants... 03/08/2004 11:04 PM
Pen Drive: The Road Warrior's Guide - carry a word processor, spreadsheet, email client and more, all in your pocket.

Tenn. Man Arrested After Changing Pants
(AP)

Tenn. Man Arrested After Changing Pants
(AP) 04/15/2004 06:31 PM
AP - It was a case of being in the wrong pants at the wrong time. Kendrick Gibson, 26, was arrested by police Thursday after failing to surrender himself for booking on a misdemeanor citation for a suspended license charge.

Man Admits Stuffing Shrimp Into Pants
(AP)

Man Admits Stuffing Shrimp Into Pants
(AP) 01/22/2004 02:10 AM
AP - A man pleaded guilty to retail theft for allegedly stuffing $73 worth of shrimp down his pants at a grocery store and then fleeing from the store without paying.

Louisiana Bill Would Ban Low-Slung Pants
(AP)

Louisiana Bill Would Ban Low-Slung Pants
(AP) 05/13/2004 04:46 PM
AP - A Louisiana state representative wants to make it illegal for people to wear low-slung pants that expose underwear — or more. But he's having trouble getting some of his colleagues to take him seriously.

"Meth Dealer Arrested After Pants
Explode"

"Meth Dealer Arrested After Pants
Explode" 08/04/2004 04:20 AM

Police Catch 80 Revelers with Pants Down
(Reuters)

Police Catch 80 Revelers with Pants Down
(Reuters) 08/31/2004 10:13 AM
Reuters - Around 80 men were caught with their pants down at a men-only nightclub when detectives burst in on a late-night drug raid.

Dad Says School Duct-Taped Son's Pants
(AP)

Dad Says School Duct-Taped Son's Pants
(AP) 09/22/2004 04:27 PM
AP - An outraged father of a seventh-grader says an assistant principal duct-taped his son's pants to keep them from sagging then sent him back to class.

Yahoo! News - Louisiana May Ban
Low-Slung Pants

Yahoo! News - Louisiana May Ban
Low-Slung Pants 04/24/2004 07:27 AM
Yahoo! News - Louisiana May Ban Low-Slung Pants .. this bit of news

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Gates: "Google Kicked our Butts"!

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