Comments on: How much power do mobile search partners have? http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2010/03/03/how-much-power-do-mobile-search-partners-have/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:53:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CK1 http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/2010/03/03/how-much-power-do-mobile-search-partners-have/comment-page-1/#comment-3086 CK1 Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:10:08 +0000 http://blog.connectedplanetonline.com/unfiltered/?p=1790#comment-3086 Ultimately, that power on an open source platform is in the consumer\'s hands. It\'s still a nice win for Yahoo, though -- the consumer will exercise the power he has only when he is dissatisfied; that is, his default position is to do nothing. As long as he finds the default search (Yahoo) acceptable, he won\'t switch over to Google. This of course opens the floor for the question, \"how many users will be dissatisfied with Yahoo search and switch?\" That\'s a bit beyond my ability to predict with any accuracy, I feel. :) Ultimately, that power on an open source platform is in the consumer\’s hands. It\’s still a nice win for Yahoo, though — the consumer will exercise the power he has only when he is dissatisfied; that is, his default position is to do nothing. As long as he finds the default search (Yahoo) acceptable, he won\’t switch over to Google.

This of course opens the floor for the question, \"how many users will be dissatisfied with Yahoo search and switch?\" That\’s a bit beyond my ability to predict with any accuracy, I feel. :)

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