"Relying on search engines for a sustainable (long term) successful online business isn't to smart." that's enlightening.
If it came true, my sites would get lots of traffic because rank in top 3 in yahoo and bing are too easy. However, I wouldn't get any $ because my all revenue come from adsense
Yes yahoo can be the better substitute.As yahoo is in the second position in best search engine list.
John Chow is a really bad example. He ONLY makes money by teaching people how to make money. His blog is really useless, every post is made to sell some useless $99 ebook. The only way he makes money is by scamming noobs and he teaches others how to do that
Google is not the whole Internet! Google is just a small part of WWW. We will surely get some shock and will have difficulty to change the way we are using Internet. But collapse of Google will surely not create any big difference in Internet and Internet use.
I think you really have no idea about how big google is is google collapse now the whole internet world will go back to the year 2005 or even 2000 now imagine what would be the effect
If Google collapses, the world will be in chaos.... Internet Marketers will lose their 'jobs'... Then I will do offline businesses.
Something would have to go terribly, terribly wrong for Google to collapse and people would already be moving on to other companies for that to occur making this thread a typical DP total waste of time.