http://www.cnbc.com/id/49477730 This is an article I got to see on http://drudgereport.com/ Personally, I don't believe it.. Google battle against spammers and manipulators have failed. Search relevancy is not as it used to be. What are you thoughts?
People are missing the key point. Revenue increasedand that's the important thing. Sure, profit went down, but that could be because they incurred a lot of costs this year, buying people out, running costs and so on.
google will vanish by the coming 5 years because the search relevancy is not as before they were in the battle to remove spam but they failed!
Google is a very bad search engine and will lose eventually. Its search results are not relevant and make the life harder for everyone, site owners and searchers. Google is not a serious search engine anymore. They play with the search results constantly and name this game as algortihm updates. If you put a web page as a search result #2 and drop it to #199 in just a few weeks, you can not be a reliable search engine. Who cares the algorithm updates and their fight with spam? Google search results change too fast. Visit a site today through Google search and if you forget its URL, you can hardly find the same site on google in the next week. I bookmark the sites I find through google search. Because I know, I can not find those web pages next time when I search the same phrases on google.
I agree with a lot of that. I don't see them ever going away, but I think at any point in time something new could come out that could be a major competitor for their search engine. Facebook could add a search engine to their site and one could almost guarantee that it would take 30-50% of Googles search traffic. Plus with Bing growing Google can really only go down hill from here. It will be interesting to see. It's really too hard for anybody to say at this point in time but nothing is forever.
I can't see google disappearing as it has too much of the market using it's search engine. it also has its hands in lots of other pies such as google drive, google+, gmail, google docs amongst many others. they are simple and quick
Human edited directories (i.e., dmoz.org) are more reliable for me when I need to find something on the net. They provide static, reliable search results. You can find the same site at dmoz even if you search for it after several years. Search engines should hire human editors and should show the results in thousands of categories like web directories. But they don't want to spend money for human editors and look for cheap, automated solutions which don't work for anyone. They try to find free editors by several methods like +1, likes, etc. But those methods don't work as well. Because free is always free and paid is paid. If you don't pay the necessary costs for a quality service, you can not provide a quality service. In my opinion, Dmoz is also free like search engines and not much reliable. If you use, you will notice that Yahoo directory, business.com and other paid web directories provide the best service in terms of finding something on the net. People will notice their quality and stop using the search engines if search engines don't stop providing low cost search services like a top-quality search service. Search engines should hire more editors than servers and programmers if they don't want to dissappear.
Maybe Google may not be popular for its search engine in coming years or so but I can't see Google come down as a company.
If the anti trust suit proceeds against Google and it is broken up into smaller companies or restructured, that may also open the door for more competition.
Google will improve, Bing and Yahoo are still not in the sight of it's competitor. 5 Years are too little to make it disappear.
You gotta be the first person in the worl to say that. Not really. DMOZ is full of editors selling listings. So not very reliable IMO. That would never happen. You know how many sites there are in this world...? And in these days people are lazy. They just want to type their query and get results. not pick a category then do a search. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well which one is it? You're saying 2 things here... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People will NEVER use directories to search the net... come on now... Those directories are paid and most people won't pay to list their sites there so that wouldn't be good for search users. and I don't think people still submit to Yahoo directory anyway. Everybody knows it's worthless and a link from there is not worth $300. no, no the won't... none of the major SE's, Google, Bing, yahoo, will EVER "disappear"...
Personally i found google searches quite better, i mean it's the first time when i found the information that i am looking for very fast, (for essays...) for programming and many more. I think they are on the right side.
before google become so popular, the number one search engine is yahoo and hotmail. then google come with simple searching form, that make easier for us to only searching for something. so, to answer your question, i think there should be a very good competitor that can provide searcher with facility or other advantages or feature.
In what terms did you find irrelevant result and which one is better then Google. By now I have not found any other search engine showing more accurate result then Google.