The entire situation was like a live-action episode of The Amazing Race, each station and handle and household racing to get to the answer the fastest.

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The San Francisco answer to that is to line up 11 of the fastest, most athletic, hardest-hitting defenders available and tell them to get after the quarterback and the ballhandler like crazed dogs.

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The answer to the first question is certainly leadership and innovation in the fastest growing areas of search engines, multimedia, and smartphones.

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