As Cnet points out, the pairing of the top dogs--that is, Google's Larry Page and Yahoo's Terry Semel--at the top two Internet search companies as keynote speakers at the world's top show for
consumer electronics at first seems a bit odd, doesn't it? These are Internet search companies while this is a consumer electronics show, isn't it? Well, for those of us in the media industry who pay
attention to the forward drumbeat of technology and its effect on our industry, this shouldn't be so surprising at all. Every gadget and home electronics device worth its salt these days is
Internet-enabled, and today that means a whole lot more than providing simple messaging platforms. Utilities like search and entertainment content are now coming to all these devices and this, surely,
is what the dueling Internet media executives will be discussing at the Consumer Electronics Show. The question everyone will want to know the answer to, of course, is how they plan to do this,
especially as Google, Yahoo! and the rest are busy adapting their search technologies for video, TV and music. It will be interesting to see what Page and Semel have to say, to be sure.
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