Google Abandons Search - It's broke, why fix it?

[tangor]

It's hard to explain to people new to the web since 2004 - the Digg kids - the effect that Google had on the internet at the turn of the decade... Google was miraculous, and so much better than the competition that they effectively gave up trying...

For a couple of years, PageRank™ worked its wonders. Then reality began to mess things up...

As reported at The Register:
[theregister.co.uk...]

Considering recent thread re: personalization this article might provide some insights and speculation of the future.

[edited by: tedster at 5:45 am (utc) on Dec. 10, 2009]
[edit reason] shortened the quote - per TOS [/edit]

[phranque]

the three phases of G: good, wiki and twitter

[Hissingsid]

If I had a £GBP for every article and forum post I have read predicting the beginning of the end for Google I'd be a very rich man. I'd also have a site optimised for Yahoo and MSN search that would be pulling in 6% of the traffic that Google is pulling in.

I get the impression that Google has started shooting itself in the foot. Eric Schmidt is doing everything to make sure that a nice fleshy part of the foot is shot into. But never the less whatever happens Google will continue to be a massive player in the search market and we better find new ways to deal with the new realities of personalised search, tweets and other stupidity.

Cheers

Sid

PS I just searched for "google ceo eric schmidt" and Google in the most prominent top left corner has a Bing logo leading to the story about the Firefox guy recommending that we all switch to Bing. Google has been Google Bombed!