How many people think that Google is not able to keep up with vastly exploding web...and unable to find new websites with quality content on its own
1) They're the richest company on the internet. 2) They're still miles ahead of everyone else. Google Wave is a good enough example of that. They'll do just fine. The one thing they should look out for is Microsoft who are improving by the day. I see so much money going into TV commercials at the moment and they are now building relationships with Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo. Only time will tell I guess, but Google are still way ahead of the game.
it can takes some time to go down, IMO. Remember, no one can survive forever, there will be someone to replace google eventually.
Thats not gonna be an easy job by any means. They will live on for alon lon time, and live on top too, you got to remember they have the bucks to buy up anyone who they might deem as a threat. Its googles web. Although new ventures can explode quick, I cant see it happening on the search front for a long long time, if ever.
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They seem to be having technical problems recently. Lot of people seem to be unhappy about the indexing, ranking etc etc. They are the king to this point. There is by far nobody with real challenge to them. Even with down-fall it would be a long time somebody tops them.
I believe you are right as I think this is happening maybe ....because google's searchin algos are outdated
Google's profit actually went up even in this recession. So I think they are not much bothered about whether they are indexing all the new sites out there. There is still only Bing with the money and power to tussle Google into tug of war.
If by improving you mean spending crazy amounts of money on advertising to try and talk people into thinking their products/services are good, then yeah... If you mean they are improving by actually making better products/services, no... they have never been able to do that, and even less so in the last 10 years. There is a reason if you bought Microsoft stock 10 years ago, you only need it to go up 100% more before you are at the break even point. (ie. it's half of what it was 10 years ago). Their search engine is bad... really bad. Not just relevancy either, they can't even get their heads around the most basic technical parts of it. They *still* can't control the spidering speed of their own robot, they still use age-old HTTP technology (HTTP 1.0) for their spider, etc. I had to throttle MSN Bot because it's such a pile of dog crap and they can't figure out how to throttle it themselves. Oh yeah, it also doesn't adhere to robots.txt yet. One step at a time, folks. About the only companies that have done worse than Microsoft is Ford and General Motors. lol http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp...SE:GRM&cmptdms=0;0;0;0;0&q=NASDAQ:MSFT&ntsp=0
Why does everyone pay out google ? we all use there services each and every day and yet people still need to criticize them, Google is Second To None... until someone comes up with something to at least match them they can do what they want. Google could shut down for 12 months and we would all go crawling back. Yes it would be good to see someone take it up to them, will it happen probably not.
I think google can handle this, with all the engineers they got at hand they'll be able to come up with a solution.. If not Microsoft will take over. Bing.com is like a sleeping giant.
Don't think google is out to be stale. They are changing their technologies, thus keeping SEOs in the ratrun to keep working out the new algos. the big G for one, is a company who keeps entire internet on their toes. Be it SEOs, developers, everyone. Infact they bring an activity to internet . Nevertheless, I don't think they are going out soon... it'll happen one day, but it will take more than a couple of genius students before anyone takes on google. The biggest rival they can have (MS) is way behind as far as search technology is concerned.. not sure when they would be up
Google is going nowhere.... It uses the best possible technology and quickly adapts to changes in web. Besides it is ever expanding, even though its search engine start to suck (in future, although its not gonna happen) they still will be left with other areas in which they are experts. Such as blogging, adsense, email tools, etc. In short they will never run out of business provided something drastic happens.
Got to agreed with Ryan6. Google has got alot of cash.... They can hire alot of talent people to work for them....
Reputation is worth more than anything online, google still has a big reputation that any of the major sites like facebook, yahoo etc so I see google surviving for centuries
lol they're definitely efficient with their spending sprees. I know that they do play down the whole Google war, but I seriously think that they believe that they can take on Google big time. I think they want to crown Google more than Sony as well (360/PS3)! With Bing, I still haven't made my mind up on it as yet. I agree that the indexing and the results can not improve upon Google's, but this is something that can be spotted a mile off from webmasters, but not from the general public. I have recently attained page one rankings with Bing, but am getting just spurts of traffic. The problem seems to be that they just don't have the market share, if they did maybe things would be different. P.S that image search on Bing is pretty nifty. I believe Google today have a 90% global share, but I think this will change with Microsoft's new partnerships with Facebook, Twitter and of course Yahoo. It is some crazy spending, but it actually looks quite savvy at the same time. In the TV commercials, they always flash Bing up on there as well. There is definitely a big push going and that's why I think they are improving and making steady ground. Have not looked at Windows 7 as yet, so can't comment on that. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/microsoft-to-announce-bing-deals-with-facebook-and-twitter/