How can Google be overtaken

Since google has turned 10 this week , it got me thinking.

Having seen many search engines come and go Im realistic in saying that google can be overtaken , even with their big money and large audience share yahoo , and altavista were overtaken.

The google business model was done by Goto before G came on the seen so it was nothing outstanding.


My question here is what are Google failings , where could Google improve, what would a new search engine have to would take your loyalty away from Google , and where do you guys see the evolvement of search over the next ten years.

You can answer the above question either from a user perpective or from a webmaster perspective.


cheers

 

Why does it matter?

When in Rome do as the Romans do.

Why do so many people want to fight battles that can not be won?

 

Right now, it looks like an impossible task for anyone. Just like MS owns the PC market ... apple and Linux has been nibbling ... but in no way they can be overtaken ... ever. They're too entrenched and with all the good/smart people behind them helping them, I don't think anyone can take on Google.

 

Why does it matter ? well its a discussion, thats who on a discussion forum such as DP.

Its an attempt to discuss the topic of SE.

 

i think Google will always be number 1 search engine.. they are always doing new things like a new browser that they just deployed

 

is it just me, as far as i can tell yahoo is still doing well, this is just a new site vposition.com already listed with yahoo, goggle has not found it yet

 

More accurate search results and faster page loads will get you ahead of Google.

 

One word.....Enron.....the only way they (Google) lose is by self-inflicted self-destruction.

 

Google can be easily won by targeting nuclear missiles at their offices around the world. Otherwise, it's impossible.

 

Does make you think a little. You would think all these compaines going bust could not be taken over. How many banks have fallen near or over the weekend? at least 2 or 3...yes if a company is made up of stocks, then it is possible for it to get big, go bust when stock holders get scared, then another company come along and buy it up...personally, I would have rather have seen google/yahoo go bust over our major financial system.

I can not use google to get a loan from the bank, and I can not use a bankrupct bank to look up a car
loan on the net. our financial system is more important to us then google is. google is a billion $$ empire.
how many of you google advertisers are billionares? google is just taking advantage of our dreams by taking our money, and we think we are going to make lots by advertising on google, when in fact most people loose money by advertising on google.

and if enough stockholders pull out, then any company can fall to its knees...some of these compaines went down so hard, that the CEO's only had their multi-million homes left...hope they have lots of equity in this bad market.

 

dscurlock:

Unlike banks and other financial institutions, Google makes REAL profit, not paper profit. It does not depend on it's stockholders decisions.

Internet's booming on these days and it's international... Even if America's markets crush down tommorow, Google would still profit from Asian and European markets.

 

Only someone who develops AI and make a search engine based on AI can take business from google.

 

Audio and visual based search results and search queryies are the next big thing. Even Google is attempting to move away from what in the future will be a rather simplistic key-word based search model.

 

if someone made a search engine that removed all the spam and crap from searches, they would beat google hands down.

 

Very interesting conversation!

From my perspective, I would say the weakest link of google's chain is the base link: pagerank.
As we all know, pagerank is the method of SERPs and the core module of the system. Unfortunately, this went all wrong when webmasters started to build their websites -and their lives in many cases- on how to make the pagerank go higher and thus achieve better SERPs (in conjunction with other SEO issues that google cares about).

This explains why google NEEDS the help of webmasters (competitors mostly) in recognizing the websites that sell links based on their high pageranks. This is, from my point of view, the weakest at google.

How to overtake google? Develop a new and better method of SERPs, other than the pagerank and strength of pages of course. This seems impossible but I think it is the only way.

 

Hmm.. i've thought about this many times.. I guess you'd have to think about this at the same time.. Why is google so popular? Why would YOU ever want to go somewhere else? What is something google doesn't provide you? If you had them both in the same place, would you use that instead?

If you can answer those questions, and get a positive answer, I think you've found your solution

 

Goolge will be overtaken if all internet makerting gurus dont support it by using adsense to make money.

 

No one can beat Google as far as I know,... Any ways you have an awesome tool dude.

 

I believe Google can be overtaken, im currently making my own search engine and need a bit help and im going to make it better with more improvements I will NEVER give up. If anybody wants to help me even the threadstarter just PM me.

 

Google can improve on customer service. How about adding quality phone support?