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Tom Foremski asks some rhetorical questions regarding the state of web search -here - and while some of his points are inaccurate (e.g. Google is not encouraging your avg. publisher to upload content into Google base) his larger point is a fair one — search engines still need enjoy the help of humans (in this case publishers, webmasters, etc.).
Given how much room for innovation is left combined with the fact that there is still billions of dollars of ad spend that will come online in the next few years these calls and rumors of consolidation of the major players e.g. Microsoft buying Yahoo!, Google buying Yahoo!, Microsoft buying Google, and every other combination you can possibly think of are somewhat silly.
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