arstechnica.com— Google might be the leader in search today, but that lead can't last forever. It can last a very long time, however. Ars takes a look at the reasons for the company's dominance.
Aug 4, 2008View in Crawl 4
Google is Steve Ballmer's nemesis - it's the one thing that's bigger than he is, something he'll never attain. That's why he's so obsessed with dumping billions of MSFT's money in vain attempts to beat them.
"yahoo it," google sounded like a really stupid name when I first started seeing it in the classrooms. I always used av.com before google became insanely popular. "av it"... they all sound stupid until it becomes the norm.
Regarding Cuil: The layout is pretty cool, but the sites I'm pulling up aren't all relevant to my search terms -- some are even junk compared to what Google gives me for the same term(s). Cuil also keeps offering up images to go with sites in the search results, and the images have nothing to do with either the topic or the sites. ? Strange.Looks like there are lots of bugs to still work out. Nice to see these guys are trying. (Still need to give Mahalo a shot.)
nexusv2Aug 4, 2008
If you read my comment upwards to this one, you will notice that these are the comments I am referring to as "immature".
jorichterAug 4, 2008
Honestly, in this case I didn't think "/sarcasm" was needed... It was just too obvious.
tao52nycAug 4, 2008
Google is Steve Ballmer's nemesis - it's the one thing that's bigger than he is, something he'll never attain. That's why he's so obsessed with dumping billions of MSFT's money in vain attempts to beat them.
mrmudgeonAug 5, 2008
Wikipedia & other context based sites are Google's biggest competition now. I use Wikipedia for many things I would done on Googs last year.
erossmuAug 5, 2008
"yahoo it," google sounded like a really stupid name when I first started seeing it in the classrooms. I always used av.com before google became insanely popular. "av it"... they all sound stupid until it becomes the norm.
Closed AccountAug 5, 2008
dont forget yahoo used have ove 55% of the traffic. anybody can fall.
jewelswoolfAug 5, 2008
Regarding Cuil: The layout is pretty cool, but the sites I'm pulling up aren't all relevant to my search terms -- some are even junk compared to what Google gives me for the same term(s). Cuil also keeps offering up images to go with sites in the search results, and the images have nothing to do with either the topic or the sites. ? Strange.Looks like there are lots of bugs to still work out. Nice to see these guys are trying. (Still need to give Mahalo a shot.)