What's Google's future?

The competition is getting harder

[sandalwood]

As all of us have noticed the changes in Google algo after Florida update, we should think why Google took all these decisions about so many big changes.

Does Google feel a bit scared of something?
Does Google feel to fix some things for not just to be a better SE but to keep the interest of every webmaster and every visitor?

My opinion is that Google has serious in "its" mind that soon some huge companies as M1cros0ft will decide not to stay away from the that game, the "SE Game".

As we know the MSNBot will come soon, and god knows how many features will get. And of cource we shoudn't forget that MSNBot has a very strong weapon on by his side. The OS called W1nd0ws!

And of cource the first step of M1cros0ft will be the next IE version.

"including a 'search' box right on the browser toolbar that by default points at MSN Search"

So Google will soon start to have serious problem...

So the question is "What's Google's future?" and "What kind of SE experience is coming...?"

One thing is sure "WebDevelopers will always be the workers for all the SEs..."

Good luck guys...!

[sandalwood]

WebMasters affect their clients about any Internet use, and the clients affect their friends with the same way....

So i think it's up to all Webmasters to give a hard kick to Google ...It deserves it...

[mercur]

One of my clients called me yesterday and informed me that after 2 weeks she finally received an order (a local florist shop that was number one for the last 2 years and now a blog has the spot. She used to get 3-4 orders a day.)

She contacted the person who ordered to get some details and asked how they found the site. The answer was that he was searching on Google for Down Draft Tables in her location and her listing showed and then he remembered that a friend of his has a birth day so he ordered flowers.

So, Google still works but in it's own way... :-)

[Chndru]

>i think it's up to all Webmasters to give a hard kick to Google ...It deserves it...

To me, that's immature and amateurish. Think more along the lines of search engine compliance rather than optimizing it. And, you will be fine in the long run :)

[john316]

SlyOldDog

I think you're missing the point of nutch. They are not trying to be the destination for search, they are putting industrial strength search engine software into the hands of anyone that cares to use it.

Put together 5 million dollars worth of commodity PC's and maybe you can win the IPO jackpot (using nutch technology).

I would suggest that if you are able to do so, download the source and run it, its a fairly trivial [nutch.org] set up.