[johnglasgow]

He lost a few points in my book for saying new startups will not be able to take on the big tech companies.

Imagine if the founders of Google took his advice.

[nazariusk]

Portals do not a tech company make.

Yahoo called itself a media company, and many others emulated their all-in-one portal model with search as an after thought.

Google focused only on their index and their PageRank algorithm to provide the best intent based search possible.

They weren't in a contest with the tech companies. They were just a feature to Yahoo way back when.