heini - 11:42 am on Mar 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

> I was even thinking about making ATW my primary search engine

Well, I think you are far behind the curve then. ATW was hot in 2002. Then was the chance for a breakthrough. For several reasons ATW never made it, but Yahoo has absolutely nothing to do with it. It was Google, who killed all competition. At that point Google was an unstoppable train, rising to a worldwide dominance of the websearch space which in it's proportions is only comparable to MS dominance in the PC and browsers market.

Another point for all doomsayers to consider: Yahoo is really only in the US a big player. In worldwide comparison Google absolutely dwarfes Yahoo.
So portraying Yahoo as a big bad wolf trying to dominate the search space is wildly off the mark.