LouMinatti - 4:16 pm on Jan 14, 2005 (gmt 0)

Is it really that perceptions are improving? I question this. To the average user, nothing has changed at the Big 3 search engines over the past year.

I think it's because so many search engines are disappearing or are no longer being actively promoted. People are congregating at the Big 3 because Lycos, Hotbot, Excite, Alta Vista etc. are no longer promoted.