Let’s back up Danny Sullivan’s diatribe: 25 Things I Hate About Google.
The search world is getting some potentially better choices and I don’t own any Google stock to worry about. I’ve already changed the default search tool on Firefox to ASK at work and Yahoo at home. I’m also interested in Listable and Rollyo.
Update: Looks like David Shaw was jumping on this train already, inspired by a post at if:book with this line:
“what i can’t figure out is: why isn’t there a movement to develop a nonprofit, open source search engine? we have mozilla, we have wikipedia, we have linux. where is the people’s search engine? isn’t it time?”
My further comment: The point is that Google, like King David, is getting distracted by the pretty things that it has the power to seduce or buy. Searching at Google hasn’t changed significantly over the years and I think that there is plenty of room for innovation.