Just trying to do my bit in a movement here :)
Long story short, Google bought Urchin sometime back, and have not been responding to Textdrive's constant requests to take their money and renew their data-center license. You can find all the juicy details (courtesy Simplicio) at How Google killed Urchin.
Please blog about this aggresively, bookmark it to del.icio.us – how can Google not notice this? Sheesh!
Meanwhile, Textdrivers have decided to take things into their own hands. Please help us all by filling out this survey. If you have a lot of time, check out these threads
TxD is so cool :)

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January 19th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Steve
Thanks for the inside scoop on Google and Urchin. That is very interesting. Nice blog.