I am not very sad at it because now i think Google is trying to become more powerful than webmasters. comScore Report Yahoo has gained and MSN is at no gain no loss.
I think MSN will gain over the next few years. It will be difficult for Google to increase their share even further because they are already at such lofty heights. I think webmaster could help them out by having their search function on their sites.
No way for MSN if they would not make major changes in their behavior. Currently it completely sucks. Though windows vista will bring good boost to them but really challenge will be to keep this boost.Currently i am not seeing Microsoft has capability to grab that opportunity specially the way they are working now.
I agree as long as they catch up in indexing/deep crawling ability not just market share. There are some key pages on my site that are even in Yahoo's directory that Yahoo hasn't reindexed in six months. It drives me nuts.
This will be a wake up call to Google. They are focusing too much on Adwords/Adsense, they should focus on what made them great search engines
reliability doesn't matter. its a lot like the TV ratings (arbitron, etc). If the numbers drop or are low; the less money big advertisers are willing to drop there in advertising.