I find this faintly ridiculous:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10090449.stm

Google will have “a problem” if it does not diversify its business, the head of Yahoo has told BBC News.

Carol Bartz said that Google would have to “do a lot more than search” and suggested that it would have to “grow a company the size of Yahoo every year”.

[…]

“Google is going to have a problem because Google is only known for search,” said Ms Bartz.

“It is only half our business; it’s 99.9% of their business. They’ve got to find other things to do.

“Google has to grow a company the size of Yahoo every year to be interesting.”

I presume she’s dissembling, because search is not what Google does; the search is now more of a side-effect; what Google does is advertising, amongst other things. Search is just the medium through which it’s delivered, and that’s not going to go away soon.

Funny though – in some ways Ms Bartz is correct – some of the stuff about “Facebook is your Frenemy” is spot-on.