europeforvisitors - 4:00 pm on Jan 24, 2006 (gmt 0)

I think the subtext here is "Search is just a tool." (Let's not forget that Yahoo outsourced search to Google for a long time, when it was building itself into a major Internet property.)

If Ms. Decker had wanted to elaborate on her remarks, she might have added: "Unlike Google, we've never relied on spidered search as our core business--we're an Internet-based media company, not a tool vendor."

Mind you, I'm not suggesting that Google is just a tool vendor, but Yahoo might not mind planting that idea in reporters' and investors minds. :-)