Ever wonder which one of the two search giants spiders more of an individual HTML page? According to ResearchBuzz, it's Yahoo.

If you search Yahoo for aardvark apple zither zephyr originurlextension:html...you'll find that filesizes are listed with search results, and the filesizes listed are well over 150K — I see page sizes of over 800K listed here! At least one of the pages listed, at 173K, appears from its cache to be fully indexed..

Searching Google for the same query, according to ResearchBuzz, produces a maximum of 101K from an individual HTML page. ResearchBuzz recommends using Yahoo over Google when "running searches which might tend to focus on large pages."

Interesting - what do people think on this?

A quick note to let everyone know that starting this week Brad Hill, who maintains several other fine blogs here on the WIN Network, will be taking over the Unofficial Google Weblog. I'm going to be concentrating more on the Unofficial Yahoo Weblog and other stuff.

Brad is uniquely qualified to take this blog over, given his extensive knowledge of Google (he is the author of "Google for Dummies", among other things). He will bring a lot of insight into what Google is up to and where they are going.

Yahoo must have thought Google's rapid stock rise was too good a thing to pass up as they sold 2.3 million shares of stock yesterday, according to CBS Marketwatch. Priced at $82.62 per share, the sale of IPO granted stock netted a hefty $191 million.

Google closed slighty down on Friday, ending trading at $106.15.

Via a Google Blog entry we learn the Google Store got a face lift. Having never browsed the Google Store, I decided to pop over for a quick look.  The most useful thing there for me was the "stretchy ball of blue fun" which "comes in a handy storage tin", better known as Google Goo. The Sundog Swirl Adult Tie-Dye T-shirt also caught my eye, as did the Google Blinky Pin.

Have fun shopping.

[The author of this post in no way gets any cash kick backs from Google for linking to their store. Free Google  promotional items are always welcome though….]

If you have a Blogger blog, you may have noticed recently the ads disappeared. Why? Because Blogger has tied themselves into parent Google's AdSense program to provide bloggers a chance to make some dough. As Biz Stone explains it in a posting at Blogger Knowledge,

You may have noticed that we recently removed our ads from Blogger powered blogs. We were making money from those ads but you weren't getting any of it. Now, we're inviting you to set up your own Bloggerized AdSense account so that you make the money. What's the catch? We're going to take some of the action. Based on what we have learned from AdSense so far, this will work out very nicely for both of us. Please note that this program is optional and that it is not required for you to have a Blogger powered blog—all bloggers are invited.

The ads will display on a blog much like they would on any other website. Those desiring the technical details can read about here.

This is an interesting idea…allowing bloggers to get a little bit of profit for their work. Not enough to keep your car bill paid probably, but hopefully at least enough to buy some candy now and again.

I've got six new Gmail invites to give away. The rules are simple: take a look at the four questions below, answer them correctly and include the Google search URL AND the URL of the page you found your answer on as part of your response. First six responses which are correct for ALL questions get a gmail invite.

1: After mating, how many hours is it before a female cheese skipper begins laying eggs?

2: What style of theater witnessed the first appearance of women on the English stage?

3: How many square miles of prairie are in the Okefenokee Swamp?

4: In what ancient Greek court did St. Paul preach a sermon to the Athenians?

Google last week unveiled the Gmail Notifier, an application which lets you know if you have Gmail without having to actually open your browser. Resting happily in your icon tray, the Google eyes wait for you to click them to check your mail. The application checks your mail every two minutes, notifying you via a message when new ones arrive.

You can also set the Notifier to become the default email application when you click on an email link on a web page.

...per share at the closing bell today, according to the Associated Press. A rough 18 percent jump in value the first day. Not bad…

Finally, Google is out of the IPO starting gate. Trading at 101.93 as of this posting. Follow it more closely at Yahoo Finance if you wish.

...that's the price Google is going to trade at starting tomorrow, according to News.com. Far from the original high end price of $135 a share, but still good enough to probably make a lot of people richer on paper come this time Thursday night. Does $85 seem the right price? A portfolio manager News.com asked seemed to think so:

The stock is now in the ballpark of being the right price," said Tom Wyman, a portfolio manager with Husic Capital Management. "At this level, it's about a 20 percent discount to Yahoo's valuation, which is proper, given Yahoo has a diversified revenue stream and Google is a one-trick pony; Yahoo has one class of shares and Google has two; and Yahoo gives financial guidance of how it will do next year and Google gives no guidance."

What do you think?

Google got the final ok from the SEC to begin trading in the next 15 days today, according to News.com. Trading under the symbol "GOOG" may begin as soon as tomorrow. A final starting price per share has still not been set.

Google announced via their IPO site today they would be dropping the price range of their stock to between $85 and $95 per share from the original $108 to $135. They also reduced the number of total shares from 25.7 million to 19.6 million, according to News.com.

Via the same release on their site, Google has asked the SEC to once again make their IPO registration statement effective, this time targeting 4 p.m. EST today.

Like a stalled hurricane, the pending Google IPO has been delayed yet again, according to CNN/Money. The reason reported this time is the SEC failed to "make effective" the IPO paperwork before the close of business. An analyst CNN/Money talked to said nothing seemed out of the ordinary in regards to the situation, but it was tied more to the SEC probably taking its time to make sure all is in order before giving the green light.

The next anticipated time for that green light is tomorrow morning.

Given the fact the Google interview in Playboy is now part of the company's IPO filing, and hence in the public domain, I've taken inspiration from the Search Engine Journal and collected the entire interview. It is presented below in its entirety.

[UPDATE] Playboy's lawyers contacted our ISP and asked us to take the interview down. We originally posted the interview using the logic that the contents of SEC filings are public domain, therefore copying the interview from their site was legit. But if the Google people didn't have proper authorization to include the interview in their IPO filing, then we would just be repeating Google's own copyright infringement. It makes sense that you can't just go around violating copyrights by always being the second one to do it…

Google may begin trading Wednesday morning, according to Reuters. In a note posted on its IPO site, Google and its underwriters have asked the SEC to "declare the registration statement pertaining to Google's initial public offering of Class A common stock effective on Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). "

If this request is approved, Google will most likely begin selling shares to the public right away, including those who made successful bids during the IPO auction.