[GeekyBear]

Everyone needs search, and it's unfair that Google has spent over a decade creating a better search engine than its competitors, so Google should be forced to open source their search algorithms.

Is this the argument you guys are seriously making?

The solution for a competitor having a better product than you is to pick a single strategy and keep iterating on whatever it is you build, instead of abandoning one product after another.

[zaik]

Search is not something that requires interoperability. I can use DDG without any of my friends using it.

[GeekyBear]

iMessage already has interoperability through support for the universal SMS standard.