The question will be if people will stay and switch their mapping and local preferences over to Microsoft. I suspect that this new offering is a definite step in that direction.

Yahoo has a strong foothold in that entertainment space. They’ve made strong partnerships that will provide them an advantage that they’ll need to battle the likes of AOL.

Google is taking a lot of hits to its image as a benevolent spreader of new and better technology. In some ways, its success has made people scrutinize what it does much more closely.

Having a balanced approach to content lets a Web company target a range of audiences. Different people are willing to pay for different things.

They’re not going to back off of something that they billed as being so critical to adding to the base of knowledge and information that’s available online,

It’s only a small number of people who know what to do with it.

The thing about search is that it’s all about performance, not about the brand name. As long as it performs, people are going to buy it.

[With Windows Live, Microsoft] is asking people to entrust a lot of their lives in the hands of Microsoft, … Trust is a loaded word for Microsoft.

It was very entertaining, very cute, but it doesn’t tell me why I should go to Pets.com instead of buying food from my veterinarian,

At least they’re not going backwards. This is a turnaround. They’re growing. Just not as much as everyone else.

Everyone has a different way of dealing with content. If a portal can produce better results with tagging or intelligence than its competitors, people will come to that site and use it instead of the...

They’re the first ones out there with an integrated approach to sharing content. But there will be fast followers.