In his latest Alertbox column Jakob Nielsen (you know, the usability guru) writes: I worry that search engines are sucking out too much of the Web’s value, acting as leeches on companies that create the very source materials the search engines index. He argues that people are using the search engines as ‘answer engines‘, and that they often do not visit the pages that create the content at all.

Going from a PR7 to nil I should know what it feels like to be the coolest kid in class one day, and the geek back in the corner the next. I’m glad my income doesn’t rely on Google traffic, cause if it did I’d be in it deep. Here’s the story: I’ve created a script, called phpODP that lets people put the content of dmoz (the open directory project) on their own pages.