Tim O'Reilly; "Fighting over search is a bit like the Free Software Foundation re-implementing cat, ls, sort, and all the other Unix utilities that were already available in the Berkeley distributions of Unix."
From the article;
Here is a business [Yahoo] that has beaten Google in area after area, that is unquestionably the #1 media company on the net, and yet has let itself be defined by the one area in which it is #2 [Search] -- and where it could be much more profitable and successful by partnering [out-sourcing search] with #1 [Google] than by competing with them.It is interesting that ISPs are also starting to tell customers to go and get a free email account from GMail or Hotmail instead of using an ISP email. The ISPs are too small and the bigger companies handle spam filtering and access much better.
