The Future of Search: Reaching for a Piece of Google’s Pie

February 26th, 2007

Ok…this is great that someone is trying to build a better search engine, but does anyone really believe that Google is going away anytime soon? I use Google almost exclusively for searching the web for what I need. No one else even compares to it in my eyes. They already have the stranglehold on the title of best search engine. They are the Microsoft of search engines.

Of course I do agree that it could be done better, but how? Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales speaks on it by saying that they can’t be on top forever. Can they really be knocked off? It has been tried before, but to little success. Funny thing though is that Google wasn’t the first. Before I started using Goolge I used many other search engines. Yahoo!, HotBot, Lycos, etc. for my searching needs. I guess when i think about my transition from one to the other it is possible that a newer and better search engine could take my searches. Take a look at the article and hear a bit about the thought process of the Wiki founder’s announcement from earlier that promises another search engine player in 2007.

Last year, when Wikipedia Latest News about Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales announced plans to launch a new search engine in the first half of 2007, everyday users of this now ubiquitous tool wondered what Wales could do that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) Latest News about Google couldn’t. However, the search engine community knew better.Of course, Google reset the benchmark for search several years ago, which led to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary listing of the company’s name as a transitive verb. read more…