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[Gretchen Lippitt]

I doubt most users care about 'justice' in relation to their search engine
of choice. They also don't seem terribly interested in the current
proprietary toolbar options. What I (and probably most users) want is single
search toolbar which allows a searcher to enter the search term once and
then click on various search engines - compare and contrast. Users will
quickly figure out which works best for which searches for themselves, and
everyone's happy.

As for Ask, I can't get very excited about a search engine that doesn't
display the main campaign site on a search for Obama. Not even if you go to
'Narrow Your Search' and click on Obama for President. That's pretty
pathetic.


-----Original Message-----

On May 22, 2007, at 4:33 AM, Dirson wrote:

> If a project aims to beat Google, must it appeal to users' sense of
> justice (fight the monopoly), or must it offer them a cool search
> engine?
>
> Let's remember that Google didn't spend any buck on marketing.
> There're enough tools on the Internet to spread the existence of a new
> search tool. If it rocks, users are to adopt it.