> Bartz really wasn't there long enough to execute on a strategy, but her point was that the opportunity cost of continuing to try to win the search engine wars

> Bartz really wasn't there long enough to execute on a strategy, but her point was that the opportunity cost of continuing to try to win the search engine wars was far greater than the likely value of the investment. True, but don’t you kind of have to win at something to retain users? It’s just unclear to me where they wanted to invest the freed money.