dirty_marra - 8:12 pm on Mar 14, 2007 (gmt 0)

Any "business" who's financial existence depends on an internet search engine has to expect that they could cease operations at any moment.

And that's the problem. To expect to cease operations means to not invest adequetely in your site/admin/warehouse/staff/premises and thereby reduce the quality of what you do. This can't be good for e-commerce.