July 13, 2007
Google to Take 90% Market Share?
By now I am sure you have heard the reports that “experts” believe that in ten years Google will have a 90% share of the search market. Let’s get serious here for a minute ….
In looking at some archived information I have going back to 1999, experts at that time were stating that the search engine to beat in the 21st century was HotBot. Yeah, HotBot was awesome, but where are they now? The problem with HotBot was that they pulled their information from the Inktomi database and as the engineers at Inktomi failed to improve the data, HotBot was history with the rest.
Anyone who predicts what is going to happen in search ten years from now is an idiot. Google didn’t exist ten years ago. Don’t waste your time listening to predictions. Enough said.
Filed under Google by Jerry West
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