Big Fish eats small fish (Score 1)

Seems the big fish eating the smaller ones syndrome is back. The search engine market is going on two scales - commerical or research oriented.

Google is the only search engine that has a good and right mix of both and thus is manaing. And their core business is searching unlike Yahoo, Overture etc. whoes core is business centric (shopping, search key word sales etc.)

As long as the big companies maintain to keep their search engines research oriented, they cannot win the game. or survive in the near future