If your offering only on your country. Google.com isnt important. If you are offering worldwide. Google.com is very important..
Yes,Still Google is the Best and has a firm grip on traffic.If u want traffic then u should understand the importance of google
I always think Google is important, but let's not forget the other search engines too, they might feel left out and rejected!
I think it's good that they feel left out I rank in similar places for Google, Yahoo and I'm starting to get there on Bing now. About 99% of my traffic comes from Google, 0.7% from Bing and 0.3% from Yahoo. Yeah, that's why I don't care about the other search engines
That could be true, but what if Yahoo and MSN suddenly up their game, you would have already done the work beforehand to achieve it, always plan ahead for business aims and objectives, never underestimate Google it might stay at the top, but the others may just catch up.
If your target market is the US only, then yes, Google.com is important. I am canadian and have canadian products sometimes - so I buy the .ca domain name and get great results on Google.ca but not Google.com, but it fits my niche.