[lsc]

eh, I think much of google's lead is also the infrastructure, and I don't mean the servers. If you showed up at my doorstep with a giant wad of cash and said "build a better search engine" well, about 2/3rds of the people I'd want to hire to help me are already working at google.

[robryan]

The rest are probably working on Bing, seems like Microsoft has a really talent team there, given the relatively small inroads they have made into market share shows just how hard it is to compete.

[lsc]

eh, If you wanted to do this, there was a real opportunity when Yahoo announced that they were going to use bing. There were many very good, very disappointed inktomi folks at Yahoo.