Everything Else

So my old rather disreputable "trucker" style cap finally fell apart due to advanced age, so I thought I would replace it with a search engine logo cap. I went looking for search engine gear to buy from the major search engines and was shocked to find that only Google has a functioning gear store! This gives Google a virtual monopoly on the gear front, not because they are better but because the other search engines have dropped the ball and IMO they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Yahoo - first up on the shame list is Yahoo Gear Store. Jeez how lame is that. Forget peanut butter memos, this yahoo gear store has been closed since before June of 2005! Yahoo, if you want to compete with Google then you have to work on that attention span thing and show some pride.
Ask.com - Personally I like the Ask logo. So I was hoping to find a black ball cap with the Ask logo on it. Ask doesn't even have a store. Besides it looking cool I figured having "Ask" on my cap might be a good conversation flirting opener with chicks at parties when they ask me what they are supposed to ask me. See there is a whole domino effect here due to gear failure!
MSN/Live - I searched but found no store. Frankly, I was not keen on having a butterfly on a cap anyway.
Okay by now I was getting desperate...
Even venerable portals like Excite or Lycos had no gear, nor did newcomers Clusty, Exalead or Gigablast.
What about the directories? Dmoz.org was a bust. The little Mozilla mascot might have looked cool but no dice. So far only Uncoverthenet has gear, but no hats.
Man, all I wanted was to buy a cool looking search engine cap that didn't say Google - is that too much to ask? Damn. You can't compete if you quit the field.


Listening to ''I'll Be Home For Christmas'', by Frank Sinatra (Play Count: 14)