From today's blog entry:
"..... Yesterday at the Web2.0 event in San Francisco Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a “surprise†visit and talked about a range of things. Dow Jones newswires captured some of the discussion. Specifically Brin lamented the “abdication†of search by Yahoo. Here’s TechCrunch’s version of the relevant part of the exchange between Brin and interviewer John Battelle:
JB: Do you like Bing? You a Bing users?
SB: I use all search engines out there. Bing reminds us that search is a competitive market. There’s Powerset that Microsoft bought. There’s Cuil. There’s a lot of interesting stuff going on. It’s a shame Yahoo is abdicating.
JB: They would say they’re not.
SB: Sorry that was my impression. ...." |