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jonnythan
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Join Date: Aug 2005 | Lili said:
it doesn't matter if it was the best search engine in the wordl. People use google because google has worked itself into every nook and cranny of people's lives. To switch search engines isn't just matter of changing search engines, it then becomes an issue of going out of ones way to use a different search engine. Why use Bing when Google is not only search, but email, maps, shopping, etc etc etc. And not only do they have maps, but they have the best most detailed maps. Not only to they have email, but they have the fastest email. And search is all integrated into all of those things as well. It's not just about search, it's people's whole online routine.
Doesn't mean Google will always be king, though. These things have a way of changing
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Lili
Silly Lili
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Join Date: Apr 2005 | jonnythan said:
Doesn't mean Google will always be king, though. These things have a way of changing
Google's got tentacles all over the place, it'll be quite a task. Microsoft will have to get tentacles too...lots and lots of totally awesome, free to the public tentacles. Microsoft isn't really known for their willingness to give stuff away free, supported only by their advertisements. they really like charging for stuff. When you've got a bulky slow piece of software that's $100, or a really trim awesome, feature-packed piece of software that's free, which are you gonna pick? Right now, that's Microsoft vs Google.
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jonnythan
Cucumber cowboy
Giant Donkey+
134459 points
100/M/The north,
Join Date: Aug 2005 | Lili said:
Google's got tentacles all over the place, it'll be quite a task. Microsoft will have to get tentacles too...lots and lots of totally awesome, free to the public tentacles. Microsoft isn't really known for their willingness to give stuff away free, supported only by their advertisements. they really like charging for stuff. When you've got a bulky slow piece of software that's $100, or a really trim awesome, feature-packed piece of software that's free, which are you gonna pick? Right now, that's Microsoft vs Google.
Let me make myself clear: I don't think Microsoft will ever overtake Google in the search department.
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Lili
Silly Lili
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27/F/Sunshine Land, California
Join Date: Apr 2005 | jonnythan said:
Let me make myself clear: I don't think Microsoft will ever overtake Google in the search department.
I agree with that. But any other search competitor will have the same problem. How can you compete with Google? I mean, the word "Google" has come to mean "to search". How can you compete with that? lol But not just in a search sense either, but in just about every sense. In one site, you have: your email, product search, maps, local business search, etc etc etc. And all of these are very high quality services. I can go about my daily routine and just about never leave the Google site. If I wanted to switch to some other as-of-yet-created search competitor, I'd have to chop up that routine from the easy fluid routine that it is, into an awkward chopped up detour. And then I'd have to make that awkward detour into a habit.
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