Search

Many people are worried about the domination of Google. Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask.com are working on improving search. Yawn. It's about relevant results and simplicity. Wikia is hoping open source search will work. Wikia just bought a crawler called Grub from LookSmart. And TyBit is trying to private label search and share the ad revenue. But will users want to load another widget to run on their desktop?