You wouldn’t know it from the plummeting numbers, though. CNET’s article says Yahoo is just looking for a little respect. Tom Krazit’s piece makes this case, and it’s absolutely accurate: “The general public has long stopped thinking of Yahoo as a search vehicle. That distinction belongs to the company whose name has become a verb meaning “to search for information on the Internet.”

When people started saying “Google it” it was game over in search…for now.