Though who knows, just the way Google got here and made short work of the MSN-Yahoo grand portals, maybe some other garage-venture with the next bright idea is biding its time to tilt the field. Despite all the speculation, the Web’s next phase is still unclear, and new ways to mine it remain undiscovered. Google’s top dog status may not last forever, but there’s nothing to say that the challenger will come from the Web’s ancien regime.
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