Will Bing defeat Google?

Yahoo & Bing are already converging.

As opposed to Microsoft's long-standing motto, "Being evil's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Yep, and Anakin Skywalker said the same thing before he turned to the dark side.

The same thing was said with:

• IBM
• Novell Network
• Commodore
• Ford
• GM (1969)
• Nintendo
• Enron
• Troy (the ancient city)
• Real Estate

Excuse my spelling up there but I'm going to sit back and watch. It's amazing what time can do...

10 years back, the question was:

Will Google defeat Yahoo?



Microsoft annual revenue: 60 billion Gross profit: 48 billion
MSFT: Key Statistics for Microsoft Corporation - Yahoo! Finance

Google annual revenue: 22 billion Gross profit: 13 billion
GOOG: Key Statistics for Google Inc. - Yahoo! Finance

All success
Dr.Mani

Google has been trying to push people around by threatening them if they sell links. People were selling links back in the 90's before Google even existed. Hey, imagine if M$ had said "You can only run IE browser and MSN search, otherwise; windows will format your hard drive." People are tired of the overbearing big bro Google.

Will DEADsearch rise from the grave - BINGo!

Google is too far ahead. Nothing can defeat them.
Are you switching your Adsense to anything else? No.

Indeed.

They must be dreaming.

(Of a White Christmas)


Harvey

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Consider though that since regular folks outside the techie niches don't like change they don't like changing the default web browser (IE) and search engine (Yahoo or MSN now Bing) when they buy a new PC. Put a bit of cool marketing sizzle into the mix and Google starts looking like PC in the PC vs. Mac commercials.

Keep your flashy jewelry - it's search results I want.


Harvey

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Wow, I'm glad you cleared up the proper way to value a company Nathan. Just comparing stock prices between two companies really tells you NOTHING about which company is bigger or better. Hopefully not too many people use rationale like that when making more important decisions in their lives. Obviously if Microsoft has 1 million shares outstanding at $1 a share they would have a market cap (value) of roughly $1,000,000. If Google has 1 share outstanding at $400 then their market cap is $400. So, you have to take into account the number of shares outstanding as well as price per share.

There are a few things that bother me about Google. First, that Google is "cool". Coolness is usually not where the "herd" is. So, to feel cool using something you have to feel that you are rebellious or one of a few that are using it (probably because you feel you're smarter than everyone else). Unfortunately there is now a massive herd all milling around Google so how much longer can it be considered "cool". Remember back in the Dot Com era just before the big Dot Bomb when everyone measured coolness by how many hits you got on your site or how many "eyes" it had regardless of whether it made any money? Of course, hit counts included image files and other objects on your page so you could stuff pages with objects to jack up your "hits" and allegedly the value of your website. All the cool people were talking about the new economic model that was not based upon old concepts like profit but rather focused on future potential and market share. After the Dot Bomb "hits" became very uncool as did quite a few of the sites with very high market value derived from the "new" economic model. In fact, most are now gone. The Pets.com puppet was soooo cool.

Second, Google has a knack for developing "products" that don't really make any money. Despite all of their products they really only make money with their contextual ads. Google is not really where they are now because of their fantastic search results but more because they effectively implemented contextual ads in their search results before anyone else.

Third, Google's results usually suck. All who visit this forum know that if you know what you're doing you can throw up a blog or site, write some articles, spin them through some spinning software, use a bot to post them, pay someone $10 to create 10,000 links and viola you're at the top of the serps. Why? Because Google's algorithm can't read. You could practically post random words and as long as your keyword density and links are all good Google puts you near the top. As a marketer it's great. As a Google user it sucks. I see it on a daily basis. I search for a term and I see a bunch of sites that are obviously MFA sites at the top of the listings. That wouldn't be so bad except that the content is usually grammatically horrible and the information useless. Usually just a bunch of the same statements made over and over.

"If you are looking for XX widgets then you should check out XX widgets. XX widgets are great. XX widget are very useful if you need a widgets. There are other widgets but XX widget are best. You can find more about XX widgets in this site. We will give you all the best advices about XXwidgets."

And that ranks high in the Google results. Come on. If they can't solve that problem somewhere down the line, and, they lose their coolness factor then I think someone could definitely take them down. Probably won't be Microsoft since they have their own problems but more likely somebody we haven't heard of yet.

Well, enough typing, I have to get back to optimizing my MFA sites for Google's Serps. : )

There was a rumoured reason for why they chose BING;
it apparently stands for "But Its Not Google"....

My 2 cents...

Yeah, hot bot, excite, yahoo, lyco's... those were the biggies!

I think it's much harder to wipe out a single very powerful and monopolistic powerhouse than it is to sweep through a bunch of smaller fledgeling companies that were more or less floundering around and testing the waters. Hotbot was only one of several--Altavista was another one that was very successful before google. none of the SE's back then held nearly as large a share as Google does. It's much like the real world history, with how a few larger kingdoms took over many more smaller feudal factions. Every time this happens, it gets harder and harder to topple. Of course, they also say you're only king for a day...

google however has been king for over a decade...

Right now, I'd say it's not highly likely. I would imagine it's EXTREMELY difficult to capture a market share of the search engine industry.

However, the cell phone industry is another industry that would be immensely difficult to capture a reasonable market share in, and Apple managed to capture about 20% of it with the iPhone, which is VERY significant.

So I guess anything's possible. We'll have to wait and see.

Weren't Info-seek and Alta-vista both apparently infallible as well?