Where is the Berkeley Daily Planet story about David Teece and Patrick
Kennedy  which appeared within the last two weeks? A regular Google
search failed to find it. It was there yesterday.  What happened?

I have found two stories about Patrick Kennedy and David Teece in the
Berkeley Daily Planet:

Berkeley Daily Planet
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=08-06-04&storyID=19370 

Berkeley Daily Planet
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/text/article.cfm?issue=08-06-04&storyID=19395

Regarding the matter of why you couldn't find the stories using a
Google search, I can only speculate (Google Answers Researchers are
independent contractors, and we are not privy to the inner workings of
the search engine). Since these stories are less than a week old, they
would have been picked up by the Web crawler that has been nicknamed
the "freshbot." Very recent webpages sometimes appear and disappear in
the listings because of differences between Google's "freshbot" and
its "deep crawler." While pages are being integrated within Google's
databases (on several data centers), they may be in a state of flux.

Google search strategy:

Google News Search: "patrick kennedy" david teece
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=ascii&q=%22patrick+kennedy%22+david+teece

Google Web Search: "patrick kennedy" david teece
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=%22patrick+kennedy%22+david+teece

I hope this helps! If anything is unclear, or if neither of these is
the story you're seeking, please request clarification; I'll be glad
to offer further assistance before you rate my answer.

Best regards,
pinkfreud