These other companies are feeling threatened by Google's success over the past year, and are just trying to reduce the impact that this will have on their business.
This looks like doing something just for the sake of having been seen to do something. It remains to be seen - maybe they will actually come up with a product that will work.
Its possible they are looking to expand into other markets and see this as a likely avenue.
It seems likely. Maybe the search will in future be optimised to search wikipedia, rather than a specialised search. Once google get their claws in there... who knows what they will do.
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1. In soviet russia ... something about toilet seats ...
2. ?????
3. Profit
Who wants to go to 10 different destinations at the same time. I can't split myself in 10 bits.
These other companies are feeling threatened by Google's success over the past year, and are just trying to reduce the impact that this will have on their business.
Have you tried http://search.socialexperiment.co.uk/
I'm getting married this summer and could really do with some money. http://www.robotii.co.uk/
http://www.socialexperiment.co.uk/blog/
or send email to blog@socialexperiment.co.uk
It looks excellent, and the choice for arthur dent is spot on.
...play attack of the killer notes.
This looks like doing something just for the sake of having been seen to do something. It remains to be seen - maybe they will actually come up with a product that will work.
Its possible they are looking to expand into other markets and see this as a likely avenue.
It seems likely. Maybe the search will in future be optimised to search wikipedia, rather than a specialised search. Once google get their claws in there... who knows what they will do.
This looks awful.
Kmail should be ported to windows I think. Killer App