The coming Search War...

[zulufox]

After reading the salon.com article on new search engine companies, new deep trawl bots, and new algorithism, its pretty apparent that war is on the horizon.

No more are we slaves to the googlebot and pageranks, but is this better?

We have learned to exploit the google, to learn its ways, but now... our options are open... do we fight for first page on mooter? Brightplanet? google? pay to include on yahoo? How will the superpower of microsoft take its first stem onto the search battlefield.

Looks like its going to be an interesting 2004-2005.

Bring it on.

[maherphil]

Indeed, I say go after search engines that are niche to your site. For example a friend is building a site for english to german translation, so for him its important to get into Google Germany, as well as other language specific search engines.

As we've been hearing for years...good content, quality links and nice site design will always be king in the ever changing search algorithms.

[dauction]

I dont guys , I dont see any real war ..

I do see a nice market "split" though..

In the end each SE commanding 33% of the search market ( MSN, Yahoo , Google) for the next few years anyways.

I think this will be terrific for everyone , As long as all 3 se's run their own algo's a provide distinct results .

If you rank horribly in one engine , 2 nd page on other and have a number of pages ranking 1rst page on the last engine .. you'll always have a flow of traffic.

The way it is now you almost HAVE to rank well in Google ..

I think it will force webmasters to diversify their SEO strategies.

2 More decent engines means more opportunity to rank well in at least one of them.

[volatilegx]

I LOVE the fact that Google has some serious competition now. I can't wait for MS roll out their search engine for additional competition.

All we need now is for AOL to roll out their own engine :)

[SEOMike]

No AOL! I hate them! We need a new player! Not some other big dog looking for market share! I want to see a mom and pop (geek and dork) search engine out there that makes it big! We need to take the internet back from the big corporations!