I don't think it can be done, Google are constantly reaching out into different venues, they are more than just the web now. Also "Obviously, Cuil didn't kill Google." Someone would need to come up with a much better name than Cuil.
One important thing, working in favor of google is that it continues to introduce new products and is innovative at times... All the major competitors are seriously lacking in this department and so....are way off behind..as of now... Google could stumble in future...probably due to its own monopolistic attitude! Regards, RightMan
like I said before, to displace a clear market leader, you need something significantly better. Just like google was SIGNIFICANTLY better than altavista etc. Note the past tense. 'was'.
Basically their revenues come from their advertising channel, if there's a strong and competitive emerging new network, I believe, that should see their collapse.... Not by direct search engine to search engine competition.
When sergey brin and larry page decides to part ways. We will have 2 search engines !!! Google killed
It will happen someone is watching every move they do and will take it a step further There are alot of smart people out there it's going to happen.
Guys aren't you tired with GG killer threads - grew up and don't waste your time by posting threads with BS
Well, the answer is obvious. If someone managed to create something that better than Google, then Google would fade. But I think that's almost impossible...
The only thing that could kill google is everyone quitting the technology/digital age and becoming hippies and never touching computers or using the internet again. And thats not going to happen.
Hard questions always have easy answers. Kill adsense and google will go down to where it came from. So the question is what could be a good adsense killer? A zero profit advertising platform. (Nobody can compete with zero profit) Who can support a zero profit advertising platform? An established company with multiple revenue streams. Lets put it together. In order to kill Google, we need an established company with multiple revenue streams who hates Google.
The biggest factor in favor of google is their data capability. You can literally search for everything in google and you'll find a source of information. Even if someone comes up with a better service they'll need to have the capacity of indexing websites at a much higher rate than google to get at some point more indexed information than the google datacenters. After that they'll need a major marketing campaign and a tremendous buzz to get users to switch to the new search engine. If at some point Microsoft managed to get a decent search engine, buy yahoo and make a deal with firefox, netscape, safari and opera to provide their search results as standard without being sued they might actually make it. The problem is that for some reason people have an issue with Microsoft but not with Google. If people start suing google for their monopoly has they did with Microsoft other companies might get and edge. At the moment the only company with the sufficient budget that I can think is capable of killing google is microsoft but legally it seems they have their hands tied.