> This is quite possibly the dumbest article about technology I've seen in a mainstream publication. Come on, it's in the NYTimes & by Paul Krugman (an economi

> This is quite possibly the dumbest article about technology I've seen in a mainstream publication. Come on, it's in the NYTimes & by Paul Krugman (an economist) - not bad for that combination. After reading lots of articles by technologists, you need to remember to temper your expectations when you visit the website of a mainstream publication. That said, his theory isn't entirely false - Google may actually need some "outside" ideas to mix in with their own. Then again, perhaps (my instinct says probably) they've been doing that for years, and the spammers are just evolving faster.