I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.

Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.

Many people bypass search engines altogether and still find what they're looking for online. These Internet surfers are using direct navigation.

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

Anyone unhappy with Google can use other search engines - including DuckDuckGo and Blekko, along with Bing or Yahoo.

Search engines compile a lot of data on what we search for and much of what we search for is personal. Many people fear that the government wants to do data mining. It'll be interesting to see how much of all this ultimately becomes a political issue.