What makes anyone think that a smaller and relatively unknown search engine can do what major powerhouses, MSN, Yahoo!, etc., haven't been able to do? After all, $100 million is probably less than what Larry Page and Sergey Brin have spent on personal planes, yatchs, and fast cars since Google's IPO. Baidu.com is obviously a threat to Google in CHINA, but nowhere else. That's why Google owns a stake in them and has tried several times to increase that stake. Google's only major threat right now is themselves.
i think no one will mess with google for the next few years , the one who will think of messing with google will have to come with something very high in term of technology or other issues ... time will tell us
Remember the late 90's when Altavista was the #1 search engine? The same fate will happen to google too. If they keep dicking around with sandboxes, crappy api's, over controlling adwords, they will lose. How many here have given up even trying to get into Google serps? How long does it take your adwords to go to the content network lately? Does adsense now favour some publishers over others? IMHO I believe the winner will be an open source peer to peer solution, distributing results and indexing to all the servers in the world who volunteer. Majestic has the right idea, distributing the indexing to user's machines. Yahoo is right on the money with opening their search, picture and video indexes via an api to everyone.
none of those reasons will cause google's downfall. it may make you or other webmasters pissed at google, but how much do we really matter in google's business model? as long as google keeps the average internet user happy, they will be the leader.
Lets just wait and se. At the moment I wouldn't exclude the possibility that all problems with bigdaddy puts an end to google Not really but all strange problems they have had with the new spider during the big daddy role out might prove to create new and serious problems for them.
Ummm Very strange. I went to look to see what it looks like as I have never even heard of this search engine and notice that if you right click on a link then you can see that the search engine is using overture listings. The main reason why I had a look at this is because I was wondering how they earn't their money as I didn't see no ads. But I guess most of the listings in the actually search are paid listings making it more of a bid for ranking or pay per click search engine.