I really love Google. But I'm not happy that it has no close competitor. I wish we had options when Google throws us out. But as it stands, we have none. What do you think is Google fate 10 years from now? Will it still top the list? which search engine is Google closest competitor?
Google will be ruling the entire universe 10 years from now. Google has few competitors like Twitter, Microsoft and few Web 2.0 sites that are slowly growing up.
I really think yahoo is growing up fast as well. with very interesting features. you see no hope with them?
Before I answer I just want to say that I love Google. With that said, I hope to god that some other search engine or website catches them or poses some threat to their reign. Yahoo has like 25% of the search market but their users are all the older demographic (30-49, 50+, etc.) who don't want to switch. Polls of the 18-24 crowd show Google dominates with like 90% usage. That's a bit sickening. People don't live forever (duh!). As Yahoo's aging demographic dies (it's going to be awhile), their being replaced by people who seem to only use Google. Absolute power is always corrupt and Google will be no different. They already show signs of forcing their hand (i.e. no paid links). Nobody has any choice. If you want to run a website, you must play by Google's rules.
That's a sad story. I was using yahoo myself before i switched to Google. But what exactly makes Google more appealing than yahoo? is it just the country specific search feature of Google? Y.ahoo can implement that in a gitty
We can't just depend solely on google as our search source. When something happens to google, are we going to stop using search engines? Definitely not. Yahoo and MSN is still there.
what if google launch Them own windows ? or buy Microsoft ? well yeah yahoo is growing up but microsoft is going down now ... So what if microsoft become part of google ?
Google is KING on Internet at this Point of time. Many other players like Microsoft & Yahoo are trying to become KING since many years but they are not successful in that. As far as Google in 10 years from now is concerned one can not even think of it. Google will take over all possible competitors in coming years with 10 times of their asking price. If one will closely look at the achievements of Google their Major invent is Searn Engine only and after that they have purchased around 60 Business in last 5 years. So from Past tread we can say that Google will surely acquire all small competitors. Addition to that Google will launch few other services which would be unique in it's category and no other players across world can do even 1% competition with them. I am also very much sure that Google will soon launch affiliate Program which can impact huge on top 50 Affiliate players on internet. Let's keep our eyes open to see what's Next
10 year? There are lots of possibilities. 1. There are no human race due to global warming and over consumerism of the world which in the movie 11th hour we won't be here on earth any more then I think google would collapse as there are no people anymore that would pay google SE. 2. There are no company in the world that always stay on the top, such as microsoft that eventually beaten by google, there are chances that google would get beaten by other new entry. 3. Or google would stay on top because God wanted it.
Google need to evolve, and fast. Their anti-spam is the best there is but in news and items that move quickly up search they are starting to lose the war a little. Also, they could really do with owning Twitter! As for 10 years' time, who knows, but I hope they're still around.
Google is the Roman Empire of the internet - it's only a matter of time before it falls. There are already plenty of really amazing and innovative search engines out there - something else is bound to take its place...and people are going to get fed up with Google becoming so corporate and giving favoritism to big companies.