Here is a very interesting article on the future of search engines. It seems Google will not be the only player... http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/05/12/future.search.engine/index.html
Yes, all of these new sites coming out and they think they're going to beat out or compete with Google. This company has so much money to invest into making their search engine better, it would take one of the 10 wealthiest budgets in the world to develop an engine that could even compete with it.
Excellent story, it is interesting that there are contenders attempting to steal googles traffic and the way the story read it seems that if there is enough of these mini giants maybe google will finally be de throned not through one power house but by tons of specialized search engines each supplying specialized SERPs pages to its visitors. Anyway good post.
That may be true now, but hopefully not in the near future. Google has such a monopoly in searches that in the end, it hurts us all.
It's not exactly a secret that in the future there will be other just like now yahoo is trying. But right now and in the next couple of years google will be the 95% and that's for sure.
Google has spent many years perfecting its algorithm, so unless these new SEs hire all the Google PhDs to work for them, I dont see how their engines are going to be a match to the big G. Google is to Search what Bruce Lee is to Kung Fu... you can't bring me some new kid from your local martial arts school and tell me he's better than Bruce right?
It will take outside factors to alter Googles dominace... Like if broadband speeds hit 50MBs and had 75%+ install... Changing the way people search and what people search for. It's not impossible for G to get over taken, Yahoo once held a dominating share (with G's help) and squandered it. It'll either take google going 'New Coke' on us and blowing it themselves or a change in how we use search to navigate the webspace before G is knocked off it's perch
yea it happened with me a lot of times. I think that was some kind of virus or malware with my computer.
But there is another promising search engine candidate in the name of "wolfram alpha" which is more talked about these days and may come at least close to google, if not overtake it in the days to come
Did you try Wolfram Alpha? It is now available and I don't think it is ready for the common user. Most of the searches still don't provide a complete resource and the only thing it will compete against in a near future is wekepedia.
I think Twitter search will be a challenge for Google, because a lot of content is being created there, and breaking news stories are starting to emerge from Twitter. This is why the big G is trying to acquire Twitter.