Karl Auerbach: "[W]ith the rise of a highly dominant search engine, Google, the policies and choices of Google have a much greater power to define what is, and what is not, on the internet than do any policies about the domain name system."

I hear this a lot, but there's no call for an ICANN of the search space. Probably because the switching cost is so easy. My favorite alternatives these days are Yahoo and Icerocket.

Something's funny with Icerocket though. The #1 result on Icerocket for "ICANN" is http://www.gdnx.org/. ICANN itself is #2.