I don't love Google but...
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2. We probably should help Google survive, but only to the extent that they support the open web that we love.
 ;){kind=spacer} On Twitter, Om Malik says that he's following me by using a search engine I wrote about here. And while I did write about it, I don't use it. And I won't unless we can work something out with them that guarantees that they will not take us down the same path Google did. I don't see the point of endorsing a successor to Google, if it just takes us down the same path again. I'd like to amend that. If someone built a search engine that was significantly better than Google on the desktop, I would use it. But I also consider who's invested, and what their likely direction is, based on a lot of factors. It's not enough that it works well today, it also matters what it's going to be like in the future.
I use Bing on my iPad, and still use Google search on my desktop. Google for some reason decided that I need a special mobile version of their search engine on the iPad. That's crazy. It's got a full size screen. All they did was add a lot of whitespace. It's like building a car for the tropics with an industrial strength heating system and no air conditioning. Hello. If anything you'd want to reduce the whitespace on a smaller screen. But the brilliance of the iPad that software designers generally refuse to recognize, is that it has a no-compromise web browser (except for the still-irritating omission of Flash). Find other problems to solve. This one doesn't need solving.
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