WebGuerrilla - 6:39 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

>>Now Yahoo is trying to do the same and take over all the serps I don't read this point of view from Yahoo's supporters much.

I don't think you can make such a comparison. Those of us who have been pushing for SE diversity have been concerned with the major properties that people actually search at. As much as I personally loved ATW, It contributed virtually nothing to mine or my client's traffic. And the same is true for AV.

So the fact that they will both be using Y! won't have much impact either way because no one uses them. (And for the record, I, like many others have many sites not showing up in Y!)

6 months ago, there was one company controlling the majority of all search activity on the web. 6 months from now, there will be 3, and their marketshare will be fairly evenly split.

That's a good thing. And I personally could care less who those 3 companies are, or whether or not their SERPS are as good as any of the older engines that no one ever bothered to use.