muhammadsaleem.com— While Robert's Scoble's hypothesis may indicate where the future of search may lie, it is by no means correct in predicting that technologies like Mahalo, Techmeme, and Facebook will replace Google.
Aug 27, 2007View in Crawl 4
Two different issues.By saying 'Facebook will replace Google', people are really claiming that social bookmarking will somehow supplant regular-ass query-based search. That I see as relatively unlikely anytime soon. The closest thing is Wiki, which in many ways *is* replacing Google for searches of subject-based materials. But facebook? No way. Hell, that crap is what I'm trying to *avoid* when I'm searching.The question of whether another search company can come in and eat Google's lunch is another matter entirely. I think it's unlikely short-term, because Google is far more powerful than AltaVista ever thought of being. But giants can be killed, make no doubt.
wassim2kAug 27, 2007
I didn't know that those three were contenders to replace Google.
jamminmanAug 27, 2007
or, google could just buy all of them.
mrunderbridgeAug 27, 2007
Two different issues.By saying 'Facebook will replace Google', people are really claiming that social bookmarking will somehow supplant regular-ass query-based search. That I see as relatively unlikely anytime soon. The closest thing is Wiki, which in many ways *is* replacing Google for searches of subject-based materials. But facebook? No way. Hell, that crap is what I'm trying to *avoid* when I'm searching.The question of whether another search company can come in and eat Google's lunch is another matter entirely. I think it's unlikely short-term, because Google is far more powerful than AltaVista ever thought of being. But giants can be killed, make no doubt.
jammerdelrayAug 27, 2007
Google will be it's own undoing, privacy concerns, click fraud etc. Every time google gets bad publicity they are giving other search engines a boost.
ohbrianAug 27, 2007
Does that mean he is a shill who doesn't get paid?