I just read a post by theGypsy on another forum about this and wanted to add my two cents.

When you have a tool that has been as widely used as the http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/ I think it’s crazy to stop updating the tool and discontinue it. But that’s what Yahoo is doing. If Google had owned the tool, I’m sure we would have seen the tool updated, online and surrounded my AdSense Ads.

But then it is Yahoo that said, “It’s not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be happy to maintain our market share.” And it appears it’s all they want to do. They updated their ads to be like Google and made no attempt to improve on what Google already had in place and now they are removing pages that get traffic. I’m not sure that there is anyone out there trying to compete with Google.

Yahoo has already said their happy being No.2 and MSN doesn’t seem smart enough to remove someone that stupid from No.2, there is no way they can get to be No.1. I think the webmasters are ready to get behind anyone that is willing to make a half ass attempt at being No. 1 but then I really don’t think it will be a search engine that will remove Google from their position.

At the rate social media sites are evolving, it is just a matter of time before something comes along that is able to deliver information and be more sociable than Google. Google will be the first to know when this site comes along although Yahoo may never know about it.