Before Google people on net depend only on netscape, then magellan, then altavista, then yahoo then google. Although google currently is the best from the worst in SE result but it's not always because lately we read many censorship by google and country preference injustice by Google incl its subsidiaries (Google Earth and Youtube). So it's not good to depend only on Google, better diversify and using/pushing other SE too to avoid any bias in search result.
Never put all your eggs in one basket. It's best to not entirely rely on any one source, or type of source.
diversify using what? Google is controlling large chunk of market share so you don't have a choice anyway.
You need to depend on google if you want real customers I know it's not so good because someday you may get out from google search results by some reason but that's it - you must be where everyone is, even competitors which is very important
Yep, you have no choice but to depended on Google, your main source of traffics. If my site is popular like Youtube, well known by billion of people then I don't depended on Google anymore. Maybe I will build my own search engine someday.
i totally agree with you. although most of my traffic come from google, i also get lots of traffic from MSN and Yahoo too.
Nah I think one should put ... oops always put all their eggs in one basket. The point of the post is? Jimmy Kimmel would post this one under "How is this news"?
I agree there should be other alternative rather than depending on one thing which could eventually become not favorable to us. Let's just hope Google could make things better and fair for everyone.
Without google traffic i would be getting a small amount of visitors via article directories, google has complete control of the internet and it's only smart to try and get your site listed high up in its serps.
Almost more than 60% in SE world is ruled by Google now. And they become very rich and introducing many product also m expecting OS from them in future. SO how can leave google now
Taht is true but you must remember that all of them needs back links so that they could give a better search result.
like everyone I'm also asking this question! where should we diversify? Today I'm using all services of Google such as search, webmasters tools, youtube, chrome, Gmail, etc... How can anyone shift from Google to another service? It will be total non-sense. No one can compete google in this much fields.
It is not good to depend on ANYONE source of income especially Google which allows for the cancellation of your Adsense account permanently. It is always a good idea to develop multiple streams of income as a protection.
Although most of my traffic comes from google I try to focus on ranking well in all search engines not just google.
Teoma used to give good result dont know now. Also live.com has replaced msn and always appears on IE browser if you mistyped url address.