Published by nick on 03 Dec 2007 at 08:50 pm
The community will replace Google
I am eager to see who will replace Google as the dominant search engine. It bothers me that one company has this much control of the Internet. And now, even dating:
http://www.google.com/romance/
Recently I’ve been with SEO for www.wikinvest.com, and I’ve been shocked at just how much power and control Google has over a business’ ability to succeed.
I think the Google revolt has begun. I already see it happening in the Bay Area technology conspiracy theorists (1, 2. People are getting fed up with Google’s faux-evilness.
Some people say ask.com is a likely candidate, but I think it will be a non-commercial (open source?) initiative. I’d like to see and take a community driven approach.
dmoz.org tried, but has lost credit because of slow updates to their directory. I submitted a legitimate site nearly 6 months ago, but it’s still not there as of 12/03/2007.
We need a search engine that is powered by the community, and non profit, and doesn’t suck. The ranking algorithm will be open source. Businesses will be presented objectively, not based on who pays more. The community will work together to fight spam. Users will contribute content indexing bandwidth and processing power with a distributed computing platform that utilizes people’s PCs, ala seti@home.
Google is fine for now. It does a good job and most people are happy, and it’s not bad enough to start a revolt. But as they continue down the evil path of complete control and monopoly — *cough* Microsoft — users will revolt. People will start to bolt. And when geeks get pissed, they find away around the problem — witness warez, napster, deCSS, and bittorent.
Update 1/2/2008: Holy shit. Wikipedia did it, they created a community based search. I’m going to call it now. This is the next Google Search.
Anonymous on 20 Dec 2007 at 4:07 am #
Google
Google is the best search engine Google
nick on 13 Feb 2008 at 6:48 pm #
Christian Science Monitor did a decent write up of this:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0228/p13s02-stct.html
Buzzy Bee on 01 May 2009 at 2:30 pm #
I think Google will be around for a bit. However, they are doomed to fail. Once the harvard corporate sharks get involved, kiss the company goodbye. Just look at ebay. I know an ebayer powerseller who’s sales have practically dropped to nothing. There are massive boycotts of ebay right now. Their own CEO called ebay a garage sale dump. Well, that’s what ebay started its reputation on. As for Google, their customer service is practically non-existant when you needs adwords help. I’ve made money from organic search. I just question a company’s lifetime when they can’t even answer the phone. I see how you could have made a lot of money in the early stages of Google and Ebay. However, new marketing mediums are needed. You can’t make profit when you are paying a $1.00 a click on adwords or getting hit by fraudsters on ebay gaming paypal’s system. The pyramid schemes are starting and ending faster and faster. That’s all a market really is.