Here are the photos from Wildflower. Here are Kojo's photos, he looks kinda small don't you think? He's certainly not huge like me.. Also I forgot to link to the official age group results(m30-34)

I spent last night playing with Nutch which is an open source search engine. It comes complete with a crawler, a database, an indexer, and a query engine. I found it because I was having some issues with Lucene. Lucene is a really powerful text search engine library, but it is a developer's library and the examples and tutorials aren't that great. So after some searching, I found Nutch as a complete crawler and web search engine implementation. It looks really good in case you want to write your own web search engine. It's still in beta, but looks solid and has some big name backers. Nutch is based on Lucene and is pure Java.

Nutch doesn't want to be a Google. They want to be an engine, not a service. It takes quite a bit of hardware and bandwidth to run a service like Google. That's one thing that has always impressed me about Google, was their operational scalability. They have tens of thousands of linux boxes to manage, and yet they still return responses in well under .5 seconds.

Oh and Google put up their own Google blog. It's pretty weak imho, but you can't expect a soon-to-public-company to share too much information.

I put up the search box on the left. I first tried to run my own search server using Lucene but I was running into some issues. It turned out to be kind of a hassle, partially because of my system configuration(I run apache without a java or jsp engine) and partially because Lucene isn't that easy to work with. It's powerful and fast, but it's a developers tool and my blog just isn't worth spending 30+ hours on just to implement complete whiz bang search when I can have a simple working search with Google in 20 minutes. Also Google just works better for a generalized search.