Google Reaffirms Priorities

[GhostShip]

Nice to see they havent forgotten their core market 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5140066.stm

Google is the world's dominant search engine
Online search is not a "solved problem", a senior executive for net giant Google has told BBC News.
"Our position is that search is a very hard problem. We have still a lot of work to do," said Douglas Merrill, who looks after internal engineering.

Google remains the world's most popular search engine but in recent years has expanded activities to include e-mail, instant messaging and online mapping.
Mr Merrill said 70% of the company's activities remained focused on search.
"It is not enough to have the information, the information should be right," said Mr Merrill.
"Sometimes the problem is figuring out what the users mean not what the user said," he added.

Mr Merrill said Google's search focus for the future included better search for mobiles, personalised search, language translation, accessing offline information and defeating web spam.

I think we can all find spam even without Google to aid us 

[KM]

google are losing their position, every update they do to "improve" results seems to only have the effect of making things worse

recently they switched all of their data centres over to a new search engine system they called "big daddy"... when they did that i actually for the first time added a second search engine to my toolbar because since that last update i have been unable to rely on google for decent results