How much longer will Google be the dominant SE?

[slaxxx]

Do you think when Windows Vista comes out, Microsoft will do everything possible to get people using MSN...and slowly everyone will get habituated to MSN? Then their Adsense and Adwords clones will become popular, and hurt Google and their stock price? Will Microsoft do to Google what they already have done to Netscape?

Or is Google too much a part of our culture now to ever fade into mediocrity? Like even though Yahoo was once dominant, that won't happen to Google because they're so much more popular now than Yahoo was?

Whose traffic will be worth higher bids? Would you sell your GOOG to buy MSFT? Will a competition to provide more relevant SERP's make things even more difficult for SEO's in the future?

What do you think? :)

[Shandy McAndy]

Microwank will buy them out, merge with amazon, buy out ebay and then own the world :)

[nekrom]

Well google is pritty well branded atm, but then 5years ago so was Yahoo, Geocities & Lycos. If MSN pull a swifty and auto insert theri search shit into the new windoz os, then that could be interesting.

I'm just waiting for msn to open up their cpc program to everyone so I can make some coin of them. :)

-N

[dvtimes]

As already been said, yahoo was the big player, but now google.

Google may stay the main one, but no reason why even a small firm could not take over quick.

Just look at netscape, which I used all the time, then microsoft came along with its version, and yet firefox poped up.

I even think microsoft operating system could be replased. The reason I say this is because of this sub $100 laptop made for poor countries. Its going to have a free open souse operating system to keep costs down. They even turned down an offer from apple mac as they said they could use the mac operating system free, but they said no as it was not open souse.

But once you have thousands of laptops, mabe even million of them using opensouse operating system, people will get used to it, and firms may change to it to reduce costs (as well as less risk of viruses).

At less than $100 many people will get one. It even winds up so you do not need to worry about the batery going flat. Plus it will have wifi.

[JT]

BT and Yahoo merger is gonna bring some changes now yahoo have a virtual unlimited pot of money