Recently when I was searching for something on google,msn and yahoo with a particular keyword I found a particular site on the first page of MSN and on 3rd page of Yahoo. It was not one day coincidence but the website still hold same ranking on Yahoo and Msn. The most significance think to notice was that the site does not have good traffic. The keyword is search for 7700,000 times in google, I don't know how many times is that keyword search on msn or yahoo. But should be significant. There are many incident that forces me to think that search engine are loosing popularity. Have maximum internet surfers already moved to Rss feeds or social network site like Stumbleupon or Digg. Search engine are definitely getting insignificant as far as popularity is concerned. People prefer to search stumbleupon and digg or different forums to get the answer for the queries. Have you ever notice that whenever you search for something on these search engine they initial response that you recieve are all from some forums and social network site. Now people visit those sites and they are happy with the outcome they never visit the search engine. They know search engines wil direct them to same forums. So what about all those SEO practices all that is done for search engine's and if your site can get popular without search engine's then for what do you need Search Engine Optimization. People who are thinking to change their site according to search engine they should Site Optimization for forums and Social network site.
if the book marking site or forums giving better result more than search ehinge then why still yahoo #1 , google #3 on internet ?
I dont know the reason but i noticed it that people are getting more and more familiar with social bookmarking site
That is why those social bookmarking sites are ranked #1, #2 and #3. I like Digg and Stumbleupon but I visit google more times a day than I do my own website.
Most of regular users still using SE such as google and yahoo. I have a friend that is quite familiar with internet, but she doesn't even know what social bookmarking sites are. In addition to that, I saw some members here are also still not knowing what's the use of SB sites such as SU n digg. SB sites indeed getting more and more popular, but it gonna take some times if they want to replace SE.