Google won't lose its dominance cause unlike yahoo or msn, to google paid links are a crime which should be the way cause thats how quality can be sustained. Money shouldn't drive traffic, quality and unique content should, ...and thats what google ensures. Thats what everyone or at least the mass people wants, quality results.... and thats what google provides.... Unless some major search engine changes their way of search results (which will result in huge revenue drop for them, and thus they will fall to the feet of google), google should never lose its dominance. Google is simply in its growing stage of life cycle, believe that.
Until someone beats their results' relevancy along with improving time-sensitivity of certain media and speed of inclusions while combating spam as effectively as they do.. they're sittin' pretty.
Business 101 says you can't stay on top forever. Eventually someone will come and take it off of you. The only 2 questions are really is, when and who will do it.
Google won't lose its dominance at least for the near future, its barriers to entry is not just its search engine algorithm but the massive redundant data centers used to power Google Search Engines, that itself won't be easy to duplicate. Coupled with the fact that it has been around for a long time, it has captured data that a new comer will not be able to accumulate at least for sometime. My take is Google should be safe for a few years.
My opinion is that search engine market is some kind of "pyramid", where the Google is on the top, and Yahoo!, Live and Ask are one level lower, and Google is growing while all the others have real chances to lose their current positions. Look back, and you can see that in such cases the lowest ones (in this case new alternative serach technologies) may detrone the leads at the first opportunity. So which are the possible trends at serach engines market? Is there any ideas about alternatives to Google technologies?
Competition is always for the customers good. (my english suck :S) If there is some decent competitor to google, adsense profits will increase, adwords payments will be cheaper etc etc
Paraphrasing De Beers adverts Only Diamonds is forever, Google will one day lose its dominance though not in the near future.
Why are you dreaming ? MS and Yahoo Merger will never affect Google search. Let me know if your uncle becomes more rich than your dad, than what will you start calling your uncle as dad? Dad is Dad, just like Google is Google...
Google is not my or others Dad, its just a dominant figure at internet market constantly becoming a monopolist. Why should we sit by, and watch how the Google impeads development of advanced and alternative technologies, and how Google earn money by manipulation of search results. Just have a look at altsearchengines.com and you can see how many advanced technologies are destined to "die", coz Google's dominance prevents investments in this area.
Oush you are rght! Google is just a company, a normal profit maximizing company pure and simple. You provide your services as a publisher to them, they pay you, it is a pure business transactions which both side wins. Google will not be a monopoly, there are enough anti trust laws in check, it has become dominant only in the last 10 years, companies come and go, I won't expect a newer more innovative to emerge out on no where and take on Google, perhaps defeating it.
Although Yahoo and Microsoft merge will be a threat for Google, but I'm think that this will not kick the Big G off from the internet Monopolism in near future...
It may not be Yahoo-Microsoft pair, it can be any of the brilliant start ups that can emerge from the unknowns to challenge Google.
I don't think that MS and Yahoo merger can make a serious competition for G. Moreover, either of them knows this "home truth". G will remain the monopolist as long as the market gets a new and advanced solution alternative to Google's technologies.
The sad fact is that the Google becomes a monopolist in the internation market (Internet), while anti-trust laws are applied against the monopolists within the local country. And here we need some other - "GLOBAL" solution.
Have you read the forecasts concerning Google's displacing by Semantic Web??? http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3532832.ece
Nope but thanks for the article, the fact is it is not a may that Google may be displaced but when. On the Internet age everything is possible, Internet made the competition arena much more level than at any other times in the past.
What do you think about the possible displacing of Google by semantic web and such other standards/concepts? Will "web of future" be better w/o Google and its dominant policy?