Comments on: Pot, kettle, black: Google fires back at Microsoft

By: lauraly

lauraly — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:15:20 +0000

Found this post when looking for more news info on the Black Google Blackl. A video on youtube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co7WeHGLaEo) showed a Bloomberg news release for a Black Google.
The principle still holds true. Google is getting more and more market share. Both by their own platform and by other systems using their features such as websites using adsense or search engines such as Blackl featured on the Bloomberg news report shown on that video.

It does worry me if Google keeps gaining market share. Right now it looks like this trend will continue. The recent move to pull out of China was smart as it should keep discussions away from their dominant position.

For me Microsoft does have a good starting point with Bing. They finally realised that people use Google because it just gives them what they want --> a search engine.
Microsoft and Yahoo always filled their search platforms with news, advertising, social media links, etc. That was not why people went to their search websites for. They were going there to search. The clutter on their search pages meant that in the first years of the internet when conncetions were slow, Google was a lot easier to access. I remember people switching to Google as Google just loaded the search box and would open in a few seconds while MSN and Yahoo would take over 10 seconds to open.

In a way I am happy that the bid for Yahoo failed. This still leaves a market where people have 3 options. Loosing Yahoo would be a huge loss. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have 3 different approaches to internet search and the diversity of what is offered is something I would like to see going into the future.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:15:00 +0000

It does worry me if Google keeps gaining market share. Right now it looks like this trend will continue. The recent move to pull out of China was smart as it should keep discussions away from their dominant position.

For me Microsoft does have a good starting point with Bing. They finally realised that people use Google because it just gives them what they want –> a search engine.
Microsoft and Yahoo always filled their search platforms with news, advertising, social media links, etc. That was not why people went to their search websites for. They were going there to search. The clutter on their search pages meant that in the first years of the internet when conncetions were slow, Google was a lot easier to access. I remember people switching to Google as Google just loaded the search box and would open in a few seconds while MSN and Yahoo would take over 10 seconds to open.

In a way I am happy that the bid for Yahoo failed. This still leaves a market where people have 3 options. Loosing Yahoo would be a huge loss. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have 3 different approaches to internet search and the diversity of what is offered is something I would like to see going into the future.

By: masmax

masmax — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:37:46 +0000

I suggest http://www.pixeleco.combecause it’s the best Black Google search engine out there and saves energy too.

By: Krupo

Krupo — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:50:55 +0000

Ah, "public whimpering" perfectly describes that original post from Google. A really unusual posting on their part. Wonder what they were thinking?

post script: the "captcha" for this comment was "filth bullet"… sounds like a catchy term for some kind of bad public blog post or something…