OK. I’m starting to wonder if an ex-staffer or advisor from my Startup 1.0 has landed at Yahoo! First, they announce a product called Searchmonkey. Sounds a little like Greasemonkey, and intentionally so. Searchmonkey is supposed to give site owners more control over how their search listings appear on Yahoo!, the same way the Greasemonkey lets users control how different Websites look in (mostly) Firefox.

Now Greasemonkey isn’t exactly a product of my first startup, but it did originate from Aaron Boodman — a guy working for me as a full-time employee in the Web 1.0 days. Aaron’s job at the time? Implementing prototypes of my patent-pending product called Glue™. [...]