I thought this would be an interesting topic for all of us to discuss ways that would hurt Google the most. What do you think would be the most effective way to "compete with Google" (or try at least haha) in the search engine world? If that doesn't spark anything in your brain... what would make you consider another search engine the best and put Google in the '#2' spot for you? Just looking for thoughts and opinions!
Do you have a vendetta against google or something? IMO they are on top because they so user friendly and advanced. The thought of overpowering google seems like quite the fantasy but in reality it will never happen. The only way to overpower a huge website (google, myspace, youtube) you need to create something exponentially better. Like 10-20x better for people to actually become regular users. If you actually wanted to get ahead of google, you should get their algorithim , and make changes to it that will make it better (if that is possible, they have their brightest tweaking it alll the time) Maybe somehow have a voice search, that you can enter a term by saying it through a microphone. And that is just the start of what needs to be done. Even if you did become a threat to google, they would just write you a huge check and put all your innovations into their SE.
I always thought I read somewhere that there was a way in which a Wikipedia type search engine project could literally crush Google. I forget where I read it, but it was something to do with the way search engines need to work and the fact that Wiki has thousands of volunteers that work for free.
Wikipedia is great for getting information about a topic as it is an encyclopedia type resource. There are plenty of things it doesn't do that Google does do. It will be interesting to see if Google every lowers their rankings since many searches show Wiki as a top 3 result.
Google gets all its money from investors and adsense. You would basically have to scare everyone to the point that they stop using Adsense. Then, the investors would get scared and dump the stock. In conjunction with that, someone would have to make a better search engine so people stop visiting their site.
I think it's impossible, unless there is a more high-tech and user-like-the-most search engines. In the near future or forever, google will be the number one in the searching market. Just like Microsoft is the number one in desktop system company, and think Microsoft already dominate this market for almost 20 years.
Don't you see?? Google is a front for a world domination scheme! Think about all the data they collect and how they can use it against you! They're watching you right now! They can't be stopped! Have you seen my tin-foil hat?
There are some interesting alternatives out there, like chacha.com, which connects you to a live real person search guide. However, if their search was any good - why would you need a guide? Google is seperating its eggs in a lot of baskets and I think their fall would have to be a public relations thing as tech wise, they are pretty far ahead.
Launch an English-language search engine from Chinese jurisdiction with a very similar name, logo, and services to Google's.
This could be rather difficult ...but not impossible One one side, google was competing against a juggernaut (yahoo) when it started from scratch but on the other side Microsoft, with its multi-billion dollar warchest, can't even come close to Google despite its efforts in the online search world.
Microsoft is only good at copying ideas from others. So google will always stay at least 1 step ahead of MS.