cwnet - 11:56 am on Jan 3, 2010 (gmt 0)

Well, there may come a point when actually only existing customers (visitors) is all there is

There is an end to the number of people who could possibly be interested in the offerings of my and in fact every website.

Once all those people visit my website anyway, and, Google does not deliver a meaningful number of new visitors anymore, what is the point in allowing Google to crawl the site?

I clearly have the feeling that my website and my niche are going into that direction - search engines becoming obsolete because everybody interested in the subject knows where to go without the help of Google.

Again, according to Google's own Google Trends, search activity for 'my keywords' has dropped by roughly 50% over the years. If this does not indicate less people search Google to find information about my niche I do not know what would.