Yahoo is Yahoo, Google is Google. Share of people searching on Google has been expanding every month. Same with Yahoo. Basically it was at the expense of AOL and all the dying search engines.
The thing to compare is something we can’t see for a couple of months: any change in the percentage of people in March and beyond who search on Yahoo compared to how many search on Google.
Personally I don’t care about what these mega corporations do since we can’t stop them, but the important thing is that there are now three games in town, and since MSN announced they won’t be ready till 2005, Yahoo is the wild card. Anybody read how they are talking about “personalized search”? This could well mean when each of us searches for “online casinos” that we will all get a different results based on previous surfing habits that Yahoo cookies are phoning home. This could be a good thing, or it could be a way that they screw everything up in a different way for everybody, or it could be that the really big corporations will get preferable treatment because they will pay for it.