Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry - http://www.amazon.com/dp...
"Access to data was one of the things overlooked in the Msft/YHOO search deal. There was a lot of talk about revenue shares and upfront payments, but people forget that Msft now gets a larger source of data to improve it's product. Without that query stream (i.e. data) they would never be able to build as intelligent tools for spelling correction, query intent, auto-complete, etc. One (of many) reasons Google has knocked the ball out of the park is access to this data. Their bucket tests in a week probably provide more insights than the other guys get in a quarter."
- Bill Michels
"One of the least appreciated, but smartest, moves Yahoo has made in the past year is to launch Yahoo BOSS" - thxs Erik http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...