Search site wars good for us

The hottest battle in personal technology is Microsoft vs. Google, and it’s being fought over who you’ll use to search cyberspace and your desktop.
Sniping along the perimeter of the battlefield are a whole bunch of other contenders — familiar names in the Internet searching world such as Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Firefox and even America Online.
For consumers, it’s a win-win war, resulting in more choices, more relevant information and a way to finally manage the information overload that threatens to bury us when we try to find specific information online or on the files of our bloated hard drives.
That’s what I wrote abut in today’s Freep: Consumers the victors in battle of the search sites