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281 and educational clients. The latter receiving increased search abilities for free, wherever they are in the world, as the founders of Google clearly remember where they came from and here sought to help others accordingly. Google also now started to buy a few things itself, like the enor- mous web archives of Deja.com, which was the largest Usenet archive on the Internet, which they started to sort, compile and merge seam- lessly into their gigantic index which would grow to 3 billion web documents and pages by the end of the year. A Profit? For a dot com? All this and more meant that Google was actually starting to make a profit! An unheard of thing for most of the dot com bubble that was rewarding the hard work of founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, as well as the investors that had believed in their ideas coming to fruition. 2002 started with some good news held over from 2001, as that year’s Search Engine Watch Awards were handed out, with Google cleaning up, winning highest marks for the following: Best Design, Best Image Search Engine, Best Search Feature, the Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and the Outstanding Search Service. Not a Black Box , but a Yellow one This year also brought the trial launch of the constantly updating Google News, and the Google Search Appliance: A plug-and-play de- vice in a cheerfully bright yellow box. This hardware and associated software could allow for companies and universities to use Google to search through their own intranets, which had previously been out of bounds to the GoogleBot web crawlers because of the necessary fire- wall protection designed to keep out hackers and such. These also put up a wall against the search engine spider software as they roamed the net on the hunt for new and refreshed information to add the ever enlarging index, but now the advantages of Google searches would also be warmly welcomed in these previously unseen places for those on the inside.