Danny Sullivan started a thread named Who Cares If Google's A Portal. In that thread he posts five consecutive times, so demonstrate the conversation he had with a reader. The posts include a dialog between himself and a reader, who is upset with Danny's tone on his podcast, The Daily SearchCast. Specifically, how Danny was being a tad sarcastic about Google's play on Google Finance and being a portal and not a search engine.
The deal is, Google has for such a long time, repeated that they are not a portal. The word portal, in Google's eyes, seems to be taboo. Danny, as do many in the industry, feel that this is just downright funny. Either say you are a portal or don't do portal like things... Or is it not that simple?
Danny's thread goes deeper into this long standing conceptual debate.
You can read it over at Search Engine Watch Forums.
