I wanted to save Sun the possible embarassment, and SOAP the confusion, of a public dispute between two Sun execs. I've had the hiearchy explained to me. Baker works for Condry, but I'm not sure if Condry works for Manes. Either there's major news, or indecision at Sun. But Sun's involvement in the development and deployment process would be awesome.
Search engines take too long.
By the time they index a story, I'm not interested it anymore. I want a 'Just In Time' search engine. One which indexes the top fifty news sites every thirty minutes instead of every sixty days. UserLand's focus is editorial systems. We do run a search engine for Manila users, but we'd prefer to partner with companies that specialize in search engines.