Does Google search?

Hi Everyone
Lately, I have been having this feeling that google's page rank algorithm will become its nemesis. I have started using dogpile more often now. The search results on google have been getting very bad recently. Either I am really stupid and not entering the right search terms or website owners have become too smart for the page rank algorithm or google has lost focus on its core business and is too busy doing laser photography of the streets of San Francisco.

Here's a search that really frustrated me. When I did a search for "j2se 1.4 documentation", I expected to see http://java.sun.com at the top. It was not even on the first page of results in google. Even the dozers got it right.

Is GOOG really worth that price?

Searching......

G8 and Climate

With all the buzz about the G8 and the Live 8 concerts, I wanted to bring to your attention a very important but saddening statistic:
Average CO2 emission per person per year:
India - 1 ton
UK - 8.9 tons
US - 19.7 tons

It is sad that the Himalayan glaciers continue to melt and flood poor 'third-world' villages while people living in the west including yours truly continue to pollute the world with our mobile factories aka cars and our enormous appetite for electric power.
I must apologize to my friends in Europe but I think the heat wave in Europe is good for the world. It's at least got Tony Blair talking of 'acknowledg(ing) scientific evidence' and an 'Immmediate action plan' while his bird-brained counterpart is still talking of the climate as a 'Long-term issue'.
Save the world from SUVs!