What's your opinion about the future of google (and others), how will it evolve in let's say 5 years? What features do you expect?
I hope we all get a feature where we can monitor the alogorithms of all the workings on Google and they make it transparent for all of us... lol.... You can just hope for it
I think their local search map indicates that they want to be the master directory of the world. If they expanded this they would crowd out organic search results. Organic search has a lot of competition.
Google will be into more business, products and services. They have their own browser now, the are building operating system, they have their brand of phone (Nexus One), and expect more and more. They might aiming to be one place for most/all of user's computer/internet services & needs.
Well they made their first blunder with Youtube. There's other blunders which caused alot of people unhappiness like branching into their customer's business. They might become another Yahoo in 2015.
Google is coming out with their Chrome OS soon and 5 years later Google is gonna take over Microsoft.
??? With all the free tools and services they give out and discreetly taking over peoples desktops they are insuring thier own future to some degree unless the gov intervenes like they did with MS. Still no other SE comes close. Back when they entered the market and took over the other SE's had nothing really to offer and that is what people want and they are delivering it to them.
Well, try checking out the online status at present and then compare it to the situation in 2005. Five years from now the reports would still be talking about the Google ahead of Yahoo and Bing in terms of traffic.
Five years? I dont think there will be more changes to google. Maybe 15 years, there will be. But due to popular demand, I am guessing google will have a more frequent pr updates.