On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 03:11:30PM -0800, Matthew Petach wrote:
> On 1/31/09, aljuhani <i...@linuxmount.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Now clicking search results forward to "service unavailable" page within 
> > google.
> ...
> > Yahoo! search engine seem to be working fine as looks have no affiliation 
> > with google
> 
> That would be correct; the Yahoo Search engine is not affiliated with Google,
> and was a perfectly acceptable alternative for people needing to perform
> searches while Google was down.  Thankfully, there's more than one company
> providing essential services such as search for the Internet, so that we don't
> have to worry about Google being a single point of failure in
> instances like this.
> 
> Matt
> just another happy yahoo user  ;-P

Competition is good.  It keeps us all on our toes.

--gregbo

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