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Andrevan over at Kuro5hin (the not-so-underground for the underground) has an article up about Google’s past acquisitions and possible future acquisitions.

Technorati - If Google is the average person’s homepage, Technorati is the homepage of the underground, tech-savvy web user. Technorati is a blog portal whose average visitor enjoys podcasts, Wikipedia, and the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Providing more cutting edge results than a normal search engine, Technorati would integrate well with Google News and/or Blogger, and could perhaps feature blogs on the Google Personalized Homepage. Technorati is somewhat similar to Bloglines, which was purchased by Ask Jeeves recently.

I agree here, Technorati would be a great purchase. I currently use Technorati services to allow people to see who’s linking to my blog, and I would love to use the Tags system, except there is no clean way to intergrate this into my layout without help from the Blogger software itself.

Ultimately, I’d like to put it where the “Posted at: whenever | Comments | Trackback” stuff is, and thats very hard to do without embedding tons of HTML right into the blog posts themselves, which defeats the entire purpose of having templates and automagic in the first place. Anyone at Blogger wanna take a crack at this?

Another great service that he talks about is Koders…

Koders - Koders is a search engine for open source code that works remarkably well. With the recent push for plugins for Google Desktop search, Koders would be an interesting addition to Google’s software initiatives. It would make sense to combine with Google Code and Google Linux Search in some way.

Wow… just wow. I’ve never heard of this service before, and it looks great. I’ve been playing around with it for the past 10 minutes, and it has been giving me useful results; I’ll definitely be using this more often when I need to find code and don’t want to reinvent the wheel.