How Fast Will Google Fall !

Rounde,

For fear of reapeting myself. . . Can you elaborate?

I'm not sure I understand your point.

-jay

 

here are my thoughts

 

1. MSN, Google and Yahoo are so big they are not going to suddenly disappear... (Im sure the have so many fingers in so many pies that even if noone ever went to their sites again they would still be profitable).
2. There is plently of room for all 3 search engines.. on mobile phones, telephones, websites, businesses etc that the expansion of these companies wil continue.
3. There is no "falling" for companies of this size or this much exposure. Maybe market dominance will change but I believe yahoo, msn + google will be around for the forseeable future.

I have no problem with any of this..but a Google (or msn or yahoo) Bank account - patent pending would be very nice. I must have lost 10-15% of my last cheque and that bothers me alot more than if peope find my sites through any of the engines.

 

Can you explain this a little more? Where did you lose 10-15%?



-jay

 

Not so fast
actually google is #1, and they'll stay #1 for a while.

 

I think so ,too. But Yahoo! and msn will get closer. A year ago I would have thought they would be a lot closer by now ...

 

We were discussing about search engines at one of the classes. It was a graduate MIS class. Almost nobody even knew that MSN had a search engine nor they've tried it. Every single student said, they'd go to google to search first then to local sites or ebay for product search. Around half of the students didn't have a clue about froogle (they've heard it though).
Remember we're in this business, we discuss about these sites every day. But people out there don't know about them.
Just ask your friends, neighors, to people who are not in IT/internet business. ask them if they use msn searh or do they know anything about SEO or relevant search results etc.
English language (and many other languages) have gained two verbs during the internet era along with others, and these are:
to google
to ebay
I hope yahoo and msn can compete with google in the long run, since only we will lose in a long run monopoly situation. but in the short run it looks pretty hard.

 

Why you wanna see google down?

Google has given the web something special, the search technology.

If the wired world is to be considered as a civilisation or a new age, then google will defenitely be in its history. With out google web is not the same. What ever MS and Y! boast of, it all started with G.

You think G will fail? Keep dreaming.

 

I have to tell you that spending too much time on webmaster forums is one way to get out of touch with the real world (is it still out there ? )
For crying out loud, I am #3 for "surfing" in msn and noone searches there

I think you are right, onestop - but I am always trying to look down the road for 2 or 3 years. We will see what happens.

 

onestop, how about Yahoo! and aol?

 

I still love Google the most, although they don't like me so much as before.

 

guess what ... me, too!

 

I don't see Google going anywhere but up. They are constantly busy with innovation, and if you ask someone if they know about Google in most computer literate people the answer would be "hell yeah"

What I do think will happen is that Google will improve their services even more in keeping a step ahead of competitors.

 

the average search user isn't an an SEO or a business owner. 95% of all google user's probably have no idea what Adwords/Adsense is. you would have to break habit of those people on google, not the other 5%...and as long as that 95% is still searching with google, the 5% have little choice otherwise.

 

I think you are correct...Right now google is getting more mainstream exposure than ever. I have seen articles in Newsweek, The Economist about how great google is... all which helps promote it.

 

can somebody please tell people out there to use msn, I want more traffic.

 

Google is safe (as a consumer search tool) until longhorn at least it would seem.. the marketing everywhere seems to be making a small, but steady rise.. but not the dent that was expected I guess.
With some incredible msn rankings I sometimes feel the same ST.

 

i have wondered this myself... i think google is growing too fast like apple did in the early days

 

don't worry ST - MSN will find a way to grow their search.. Bill Gates is pretty good at that.

 

Yes, they will and search will just grow anyway as more people come online and spend more time online. Bill will tie everyone in if Apple doesnt steal the market before Longhorn is released. With Steve Jobs back at Apple. The Ipod, Shuffle, mac mini, osx, airport, powerbook, imac, ibook, G5, Itunes, Iphoto, Ilife, garage band.. The list doesnt stop..All probably the best in their market, slowly as people realise they can do most things they can on a mac that they can on a PC without the troubles there might be a bigger switch biting into Bill again.. I think they are going to have a tough time over the next few years.
Even the AsK Jeeves ads in the UK are having more impact than the MSN ones I think.