The Big 3 and Originality
Well, I guess the whole originality thing is out the window with the big 3 search engines these days, just like television, movies and many other things in society today. Reading my normal blog and news feeds this morning, I came across this post on the Yahoo Search Blog about their launch of Yahoo! Desktop Search. Hmmmm, didn’t Google come out with a desktop search not so long ago? Then there is the news that MSN is going to launch their own contextual ad service. I can site a dozen other instances where the big boys are simply copying what the other is doing, but I am not going to….I am sick and my head is spinning. I just wonder if this is the end of innovation and truly useful tools until the next “new kid” shows up on the block. I remember when that was Google and it has taken Yahoo this long to realize that they need to innovate just like everyone else.