Google will demise. I predict it and you can put me on record for it. As to when I am not sure but I know its going to have serious competition shortly. And its not going to be form the big companies. Its going to be from open-source people. People keep saying you can't beat Google cause they are too rich. When Google started they went up against multi-billion dollar cooperation's like Yahoo and MSN and came out on top. When Microsoft started it went up against the Worlds number one software manufacturer and took its place (now IBM is number two). All that needs to be done is innovation. The day Google (like Microsoft) stops innovation is the day others will take over. It almost happened to Microsoft and now they are speeding up production faster than ever.
As you said and it is possible that someone would kill or hack the Google search engine. I believed that there is a lot of hackers or geniuses that would like to do that but they don't win because Google company has solutions on how to go about that and they have experts .
he he he... funnily enough we just launched a google killer today. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=634431 this is a huge project we've been working on for months. we might start taking on google later this year or early next year. we'll see how it goes.
I doubt we'll see a google killer in the near future, simply because google can afford to buy any competitor becoming dangerous for them. Their strategy is simple: If you can't be the most popular one yourself (google video), you go and buy the most popular one (youtube). The only danger for them is a devaluation of their stock, it's pretty much a bubble growing bigger and bigger...and one day we'll hear a big bang that may break google's power.
That is probably the main reason. If you notice Wall Street is not too fund of Google's stocks because its too volatile.
They won't Google was about timing as much as anything else. The timing won't ever be right again, unless G really mess up. That is why they spend so much on recruitment and R & D There are plenty of clever people in the gutter... The gutter is full of great ideas Etc you know the sayings They were in the right place at the righ time. Somone wiull compete with G but they will not styart off as a search engine They will be a household name long before that... and then one day come up with an advantage. That is what G is really scared of, and ironically they will probally have worked for G!
G have far more to fear from internal squablles and their own deficiancies than competition. Romans.....
brains is not the issue here, its the advertising budget that you would need to compete with googles popularity, if you had 500 million to throw at adveretising it would be possible to steal googles position. i am surprised that some billionaire has not bought ask.com or another search engine and started a global ad campaign. it would be very possible
At the end of the day, there are drinks that taste as good, if not better than Coca Cola. But they will never be larger, because as with Google, they have household brands.
At PE ratio of 54 compared to 23 for Microsoft and 45 for Yahoo, it is quite volatile. Meaning it takes an investor 54 years to earn back from his Google investment. This is the market expectations of it, but the downside potential is high given the high premium it is enjoying. Its Beta is 1.26 showing that it is above market risk and will fluctuate more than than Nasdaq movement. I may be too conservative but I feel that the current stock market is like a casino. I have no outstanding position at the moment, if really have to, I rather take something safer like P&G or Johnson and Johnson (Johnson and Johnson had a credit rating of AAA) one of the very very few stocks having such rating and is much higher than the sovereign debt rating of many countries.
I really hope not, it will be a nightmare for the stock exchange. Also though I do not like the current dominance they are currently enjoying, I find them extremely innovative and agile. Just hope that some other companies will cut them back to size.
Google will be pretty hard to beat, and I don't see that happening anytime soon. Not only do you have to beat Google's near-perfect search engine, but to completely overpower them you have to create free services better than their own - can you beat Adsense, Google Earth, their webmaster tools, and more?
However the internet was not as popular during that time. Google entered the market at a perfect time, a time where small companies could surpass large corporations, at least in the internet world. Plus Google had over a million dollars to back them up when they started, and whatever else people invested from that point on. The same goes for Microsoft and IBM. Microsoft came in at the perfect time. I remember in the mid 90's it was rare to have a household computer let a lone internet. I didn't have internet in my house until 2001-2002 or so. Microsoft was never in any real danger, the market reached a peak for a period of time. Innovation like you stated. A Google killer would need millions of start up money to take it down, and it would also have to do something Google can't. I could be wrong but the internet is only going to continue growing with Google on top.
I hope google drops like a fly, and soon. They dont care about us little people that make them those billions of dollars.
If you're waiting for google to disappear, don't hold your breath. There is no doubt that they will be the king of the market for at least several years to come. Better to just acknowledge it and do what you can to use it to your advantage. But will they always be king? Highly doubtful. No company ever lasts forever. Eventually, all things change, and with it, the power.
Exactly. Does ABC, CBS, and FOX ring a bell? Or how about Nike, Reebok, Adidas? Same business concept. Google will never go away.