If you enter 'http' as a search string in Google, it will list entries in order of their PageRank:

1. Yahoo
2. Google
3. Microsoft
4. Adobe
5. Alta Vista
6. My Excite
7. Amazon
8. CNN
9. Lycos
10. Go

Note that 7 out of the top 10 are search engines...It seems that the web is more about finding stuff than it is about the stuff itself.

Personally, I think this is cool because it tells us that people are finding things whether they're associated with a giant consolidating portal or not. A year or two ago we thought it would be only a matter of time before it all came down to AOL or Yahoo. Weblogging, the new face of search engines provided by Google, wireless networking, and other changes have taken things in interesting new directions.