The Small Wave.

Om Malik and John Gruber appear interested in what Apple’s pulling down from Google search referrals from Safari.

I’m not sure why this is; it’s not a lot of money for Apple’s bottom line, and I believe their primary goal with Safari is to help establish more web sites on open standards (e.g., not IE-specific).

Anyway, the reason I’m writing about this is I take exception to one thing Gruber mentions:

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So it looks like Yahoo is going to reject Microsoft’s bid. I, like seemingly everybody else, think the merger would be a mess (except for Google) so it’s probably just as well Yahoo may reject it.

However, what happens next could be just as troubling.

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Everybody and their little brother is all over this. Heck, it even managed to knock all the MacBook Air fawning/despising off the charts. Like most major issues, there seem to be opinions lining up on one side or the other, with few voices in the middle.

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As I continue to fight off some sort of cold, or flu, or death, or whatever it is, it’s time for another review of recent headlines.

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OK, for those not familiar with hockey, a hat trick is three goals in one game by one individual. (I’ve learned it’s also a term in Cricket for when a bowler dismisses three batsmen in consecutive balls. This likely pre-dates the hockey usage.)

Well, with the acquisition of Zenter Google finishes a trilogy that will help them take on Microsoft’s Office in Web 2.0 fashion.

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Rob Enderle is one of a handful of names the Mac community knows well. There’s kind of a “Three Musketeers” of Apple analysts: Rob, Paul Thurrott, and John Dvorak, who are generally confused about Apple’s strategies and target markets. They have always viewed Apple through Microsoft-colored glasses, attempting to shoehorn their every move in terms the Redmond giant would use.

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According to Google’s online security blog, their initial review of “suspicious” URLs has revealed one million malware-infected sites.

Sounds horrible, doesn’t it? Well, according to them it’s basically good news:

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