IanTurner - 12:23 am on Mar 5, 2002 (gmt 0)

I don't see how the Beeb is going to compete openly with giants like MSN, Yahoo, Google and the like.

It is not that big an organisation in the overall scheme of things and actually has a fairly narrow interest.

Secondly I can't see why it wants to move into the search market.

It doesn't have the broadbase of potential Joe Public users like the ISPs - it is very unlikely to get a rep like Googles

My judgement is 'very ill-conceived' and will wait until proved wrong before taking them seriously as a search vehicle.