Yahoo! is letting us down as the BIG Google competitor. Microsoft hasn’t a hope. Yahoo! and Microsoft together? Hah!

What about Facebook?

Just as Google has become what some people call the operating system for search, Facebook is turning itself into the operating system for social networking.

While Google knows what millions of people are searching for, Facebook has something the search giant hasn’t been able to grow: a network of connections between people that creates a viral distribution platform unrivaled by any portal or search engine.

Advertising Age – Digital – 23-Year-Old Mark Zuckerberg Has Google Sweating

Last I heard Facebook wonderkind Zuckerberg was still sleeping on a floor mattress in a rented apartment. True?