followgreg - 3:28 am on Oct 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

>>they have only one real source of income

True, then relying on one single source is dangerous as dangerous as relying solely on Google traffic.

If their marketing dpt believe that branding and past glorious times can save their business of a leak in their audience they might be wrong.

I just feel the whole google stuff so dishonest: they make things for the opensource community because it's one hell of a way to market their brand and get young audience used to their engine, they even said Yahoo can't have a larger index than us because WE could not make it so nobody can. I even read somewhere that no-one at Google (unlike at MS and Y!) is using another engine ...

All of this doesn't sound right to my ears, and most of us have understood by now that Google is not better than Microsoft, all about money. But since Google keeps on trying to show off like the good guys who don't care about $$$ it makes it very dishonest.