Is Google sending search traffic to rival search engines such as Yahoo, Ask and MSN?
It looks like so in the screenshots I took. I accidentally ran into this when I searched for ‘Blackberry 8800’ in Google. Google not only returns me some, as always, some good results, it also returned a list of links to rival search engines right below the Google search bar. I don’t recall that I have seen this before.
This definitely surprised and puzzled me quite a bit. I know Google is famous for its ‘do no evil’ philosophy. But when it comes to business of making money, I have never seen Google being so generous. Maybe I wasn’t paying enough attention in recent development …