Yahoo has been positioning itself to break away from google for a while now. I can't wait, google needs some decent competition. 2004 Should be an interesting year with an independent yahoo and MSN search. And of course MSN is going to install a standard default toolbar inside internet explorer that is curiously similiar to the google toolbar and grabs its querys from the MSN database. Codename longhorn.
MS Story:
http://news.com.com/2009-1032_3-1020...g=fd_lede1_hed
I especially like this quote:
Neither Google nor Microsoft made executives available for this report. However, in a recent interview with The Seattle Times, Microsoft executive Jim Allchin said condescendingly: "Google's a very nice system, but compared to my vision, it's pathetic."