Those of us who obsess over search engine traffic (and that should be just about everybody, right?) are having a hard time keeping up these days. First, there’s the new Bing, which we talked about a while ago. Then the combination of Yahoo! and Bing, followed by an announcement by Yahoo! that they are still working on their own search.
We thought we’d wait a few days for the dust to settle and the wailing to die down after the announcement of the Microsoft/Yahoo! deal. After all, there has been plenty of both (dust and wailing). One blogger went so far as to suggest “Yahoo committed seppuku today” (the equivalent of hara-kiri). Others took a more measured view, pointing out pros and cons, along with the risks for both parties.
With the dominance of Google, and the availability of MSN, Yahoo and others, online search may be one of those services that you don’t know you want better until you get it.