Hi guys, this is just curiousity! i am wondering..with all those people out there that are geniuses, howcome nobody creates a search engine better than google! G is getting too big, im sure someone is working on something that will kill big G what do you think about it?
Hey, Google is hard to compete right now, But i heard that some China fellas are going to develop some thing.. soon
Even IF you can make better search engine than G (That isnt easy job), you will need very HUGE advertising budget before you can make it more popular than Google.
I have no doubt that they may be better search engines algorithms out there. But Google has the first mover advantage and had utilized it well as seen from its share of search engine market. From this core competencies, it is slowly moving towards other related areas. Google killer needs to be another giant for eg Microsoft. Other than that, even before you established your foothold, Google already bought you over.
Baidu is big in China, in that place on earth, I think Google meets its match. But overall, Google still maintain superiority. Baidu is good only for Chinese speaking population.
If you are a startup company and Google dump a huge pile of cash right in your face so that you do not even need to lift a finger to work for the rest of your life and many life after, would you take it? Many would, including me . And if you look at the balance sheet of Google they should have about $1.5 billion in cash reserves!
wisdom..ya right,but sometimes people must think, "why does google wanna buy me out"...... when G wants to buy out someone it means that they are very intrested in that project, thats enough to understand that what im doing is worth it..and may have good results. i heard people saying that google base is killing ebay.....ohh what a load of Bull.....
I feel that Ebay overpaid for Skype but Ebay still have a lot of cash reserves as well as a very cohesive community. Google isn't going to kill Ebay, they do not have to, as their market segment isn't really much the same, some overlap exist but thats all. For a new startup, if you don't sell, what if Google build another replicate like yours and give for free. They can afford to lose some money, but can you afford to do the same? Look at IE and Netscape, when IE was challenging Netscape, Netscape had nearly the whole of the browser market. I remember just putting a square icon of IE on my web site, I will get some free gifts. Microsoft cant buy Netscape but by flexing their financial might, Netscape still ends up the loser though it does have a better browser.
Even if you could make something promising , they would buy your company and it will be Google TM then (unless you would refuse $1 billion but I dont think any would do that) Olgi
Google didn't really had Firefox, just that they are practicing an old tested strategy, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend", thats why they lend Firefox a hand and push it a bit.....
yup....thats true!Sorry but my english is not that good,specially in sofisticated words! i live in italy.
No one in the business world ends up "killing" a business. It doesn't work that way. Dynamics in the market change. Like Yahoo used to be the king. It's not anymore. The thing is that google did something different. Simplicity and easy searching. That was what google did different. Yahoo had the portal thing going on. Google will lose market not because of someone coming in and doing the same thing as google. Google has been doing it for years and it's the best. Google will be killed by someone coming in and doing something different.
I think you are talking more about the blue oceans and the red oceans which I agree, technology is ever changing and at faster and faster rate. Blue oceans would emerge and those who have foresight can leapfrog the rest.