[ram1024]

if you're going to get talking about a competitor making a big move, never say "i don't understand their strategy" or "they don't have a strategy"

of course they do. and you just look like a schmuck when you tell the world basically that you don't care enough to do some simple research and come up with some pretty common sense conclusions.

if search is your money maker, and mobile is the new vogue, what do you do to get it so that your search is what everyone will be using?

android is a genius solution, google paid mozilla for years for control of search on firefox, then they came to their senses and made chrome. android is simply a leapfrog of a similar mistake. sure they can partner with RIM and Winmo and Symbian and Apple, OR they can make their own platform, innovate its features, open it to attract a huge base of developers and manufacturers, and tie core features to its own products seamlessly.