Do you think Google rules the Interenet ?

[idansh]

Goog has so much power and money and I am asking you if there will be or can be any company that can pass Google in the future ?

[FreeDesignQuote]

I really don’t put a lot of thought in the power of Google. DIGG is a great place for these types of discussions. I read one article where the write thought Google was taking over the world. It made me chuckle.

As for your question, Google is on the same path of Microsoft. They are the industry leader and used to compare ever other search engine. Of course its possible for another company to overtake Google, but I don’t see that happening in the near future. That’s my 2-cents!

[mjtaylor]

Yes, Google Rules. And yes, Google can be surpassed. I don't see a contender on the horizon, though. FWIW, MJ

[idansh]

Whop are the best just before Google?

[incrediblehelp]

Google Search: history of search engines

[mjtaylor]

Originally Posted by idansh

Whop are the best just before Google?

Well, as I recall, Alta Vista was the most popular SE until Google took over that position.

Or do you mean presently? Yahoo has the second largest share of the search market now.

Originally Posted by incrediblehelp

Google Search: history of search engines

Thanks for that, incredible, I got real lucky with the first one: Search Engine History.com ... very well presented history of search and the web itself. Nice new site ...

MJ

[janeth]

Google is being passed at this time by some of the social sites. I am not sure where the future is heading but I have to wonder if search engines will be the way of the future.

[Purple Trout]

As far as my clients are concerned, Google rules the World! Everyone gets so uptight in where they are ranked in Google and, sometimes, lose sight of other opportunities.

[FreeDesignQuote]

I think we all have those clients. I try to educate my clients as much as possible. I spend a significant amount of time on phone “education” sessions. Yes it’s a good amount of time to spend, but it saves me time in the long run because I don’t get continuous phone calls with “un-educated” questions. I also send out email newsletters to clients about new search engine news. It’s a great way to up sell and put Q and A on auto pilot! Just my 2-cents!
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[Feydakin]

Microsoft didn't see Google coming until it was too late.. Just as Google won't see what ever comes after them as the company of evil when the time is right..

[Peter (IMC)]

Does the sun rule the earth?

Well not really, but without it it would be aweful dark and cold.

[idansh]

Have you hear the news about new Google's competitor (or soon to become one) MyLiveSearch a new realtime search engine - there is a video on my website take a look, there is an interview with the Australian founder of MyLiveSearch - Watch MyLiveSearch Video (click on the link in the upper part of the page)

[kgun]

Some comments.

• Isn't that what a news Bot does?
• How representative will it be? I would like to see the algorithme that searched x% of the sites on the internet in y seconds.
• Isn't it a great danger that that engine will be a "spamengine"?
• Note that the index of a SE is checked for quality by advanced filters and algorithms.
• IMO, quality portals like Business.com - The Business Search Engine® and Business Directory for Business Information will increase in importance, since more and more spam / scam is found on the SERP's. Is there a scientific report of how much scam is found on the SERP's? More precisely, how many (% of eShoppers) have bought from a site they found on the SERP's without ever seeing the product / service?
• There is no lack of information on the internet. Sooner the opposite. The problem is to find the correct one. I think it is not difficult for a BOT programmer to make such an engine. The problem is how good it is by different measures, some of them mentioned above.
• Web services, web applications and XML powered sites with one uniqe source and many applications is the future. More precisely, you transform the XML node tree to another node tree like HTML, XHTML, PDF, WAP, DocBook, eBook, RSS, etc. etc. SE's have to be much more advanced to index and rank such sites. As I see it this is the greatest threat to the traditional SE's. To be more precise, SE's are good at indexing tagged data, but today, not so good at indexing webapplications like AJAX

P.S. Think of it millions of sites with billions of pages. How should a BOT be able to search a reasonable part of those sites in a reasonable time, even if

• The search was in linear time? You have to know search alogorithms to know what this is about.
• Even if the SE was spread over n datacenters? Who has the financial resources to compete with Google? Who has the human resources to manually intervene with the search algorithm and make it better?
• What about bandwith, sites down, hight traffice, slow connections, a growing memory of the BOT(s) as it (they) visit(s) more and more pages?

I do not think Google or other serious SE companies fear this SE. But I shall give it a chance and see how relevant the SERP's are. And I do not think that a serious programmer will ever try to make a real time search engine that can compete with a database / archieve based SE.

[bigturkey]

I'm not sure if Google rules the Internet - but it sure seems to be trying.

Did you guys read about the URL typo filter Dell and Google are shipping?

The guys over at OpenDNS were very quick to draw fire on it... and they do have a point. It raised a few eyebrows in the domainers community too.

Here's the scoop from OpenDNS: OpenDNS Blog » Google turns the page… in a bad way.

- rich

[idansh]

What do you think about MyLiveSearch ?

[mjtaylor]

Originally Posted by idansh

What do you think about MyLiveSearch ?

Could I let you know when I can see results?

[Peter (IMC)]

Originally Posted by idansh

What do you think about MyLiveSearch ?

A storm in a glass of water.

In the video the MyLifeSearch spokesman already said why their system will be, at most, a short lived hype. He said something like:

"Most users think they´re searching the internet for real when they´re using a search engine like Google. They do not realize they´re searching in a database."

And nobody really cares about where they search as long as the results are good.

Besides that, did you ever see a company become big with a keyword rich name? Who are the big boys? Google, Yahoo, MSN, Amazon, etc. etc. etc. Identity is about the most important thing if you want to be big. You can't get an identity with a name like MyLiveSearch.

So Google has nothing to worry about,..

If the technology is really good (which I doubt, though it may be considered a nice addition) they may get bought by big search engine.

[duker665]

I have a question, I found what looks like an abandoned blog (2005). I was able to post
my url on 50 or so pages that had almost no backlinks, and PR was anywhere from 2 to 4.
Will this help my PR much? Does it help if I have multiple links on one page to my home page? Should I add links to my other pages? Seems to good to be true.......

[stevewaganer]

Yes Google rules the world because it gives great traffic to the site and alsthough social sites are also great way for getting traffic but google really great and the KING...

[idansh]

I fill bad that Google can buy any company that can threat it. There is no competition so w can't enjoy multiple choices, like what Microsoft did to the Market of operating systems, total world control.

[kgun]

Originally Posted by idansh

I fill bad that Google can buy any company that can threat it. There is no competition so w can't enjoy multiple choices, like what Microsoft did to the Market of operating systems, total world control.

Heard about Linux? A lot of young tech competent people choose that OS. There are other, but Linux is perhaps the hardest competitor.