Google going down: People are turning away from Google Search

Out of curiosity, what good will the end result be if all of a sudden yahoo and bing have the same search share as google?

In my opinion it would just mean more work and hassle for us. If yahoo and bing grow enough to compete with google, theyre going to take their SE much more seriously, which means more dedication to fighting webspam.

Not only will they fight webspam, but their penalty algorithm probably wont be identical to Googles, resulting in having to separately worry about being penalized by yahoo and bing on top of our efforts to avoid G's penalty.

So instead of building a website and doing SEO work towards it doing well by googles guidelines, you would then have 3 separate guidelines to worry about which will results in a huge clusterfuck of "penalized by google and yahoo, but bing is fine, what do i do?" threads.

2-3 separate search engines that share the traffic is only going to be tougher for us to crack. I understand the advantage of not having all your eggs in 1 basket, but it's just going to be frustring to appease to 3 search engines instead of needing to focus on 1.

I still like using Google myself.

I don't like Bing or Yahoo's results. If anything, I like Yahoo's better.

But Google has a nice layout. People learn to avoid the ads, too.

Good news for me, as my largest website currently has no traffic from Google and is dependent on Bing & Yahoo only.

I want to see a completely new search engine take over and dominate the internet.

BHW should make its own search engine and join all the forces to rank all keywords.

Mike420 said:

BHW should make its own search engine and join all the forces to rank all keywords.

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It would probably violate anti-cartel laws.

Adam718 said:

Out of curiosity, what good will the end result be if all of a sudden yahoo and bing have the same search share as google?

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Then Google won't be able to lock the WWW down and charge for everything and dictate which sites survive and which don't. We're almost there....

Probably have to create a separate site for google, bing, yahoo.
I'm doing well with google, site is no where on bing and yahoo. Status quo benefits me.

You know what the real best search engine is? Reddit.
Here's why.

I am actually noticing this on some of my websites. I get way more Yahoo and Bing traffic than I used to do and some days Yahoo traffic even beats Google!

Mr Apricot said:

Interesting. I won't be leaving the big G anytime soon though.
I remember using Ask Jeeves in school, it blew my mind. I couldn't see how they wouldn't be top dog.

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rivenkan said:

Interesting. I won't be leaving the big G anytime soon though.
I remember using Ask Jeeves in school, it blew my mind. I couldn't see how they wouldn't be top dog.

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I hope yahoo and bing will continue to grow, because Im ranked for some $$$ keywords on yahoo and bing

bartosimpsonio said:

Then Google won't be able to lock the WWW down and charge for everything and dictate which sites survive and which don't. We're almost there....

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They dictate not only which sites survive and which not...the destroy lives, by deciding, which BS blog about you stays online and which not, changing destroying people?s career and lives... an absolute monopolist, which shouldn?t be allowed by law... I really hope, the more people they destroy, the more will turn away from G.
Cheers
Dan

sure its not just firefox users using it by mistake? Lol, know I have and I can't get off it quick enough

Google has become a monopoly and as history proves all monopolies eventually collapse. Just bank hard while it's here. Then retire.

vedavyas said:

Firefox shifted to Yahoo search as default,that may be major reason for Yahoo's Raise..

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I also think that's the reason for the drop in Google searches.

Yes Google is too powerfull at the moment...

After looking at the stats, I'm bailing out on Google. It's clear they're fucked.

Agree that we need some competition in the Search Engines once again. Encouraging to see Yahoo & Bing making some inroads back; especially since I have been doing some PPC campaigns in Bing recently. Wondering why those CTRs were up... maybe this is why.

Also, interesting post with stats on Redditt above... Didn't know that; but going to look at them again...

Marissa Mayer is awesome, I love the chick, she used to work for G and is smart as fuck.

But I still LOL anytime I hear about G falling a few % or Yahoo and Bing going up the same small degree. The reality is, nearly ALL of industrial America has consolidated into just a few major brands that dominate their respective markets. I may be wrong but I'm pretty sure this is how economic evolution works.

Look at the meat industry. In the 50's there use to be 100's of competing meat distributors. Now it's just Tyson, Cargill & JBS where most our meat comes from.

Then there's soy. In the past there were tons of soy distributors. Now it's just Monsanto. They patented a bean, created a blacklist, started wiping out farmers who didn't use their bean and now Monsanto owns the soy industry.

Then casinos. Use to be tons of competition in the 70's with the mafia now it's just 2 main guys (Adleson & Wynn) who dominate.

Look at the oil industry. Thousands of suppliers in the late 1800's then Standard Oil came in and nuked them all. They bought up all the barrels in the world so even if their suppliers were producing, they couldn't ship. Signed illegal contracts with the government. Then Standard gets sued in 1911 by for illegally monopolizing 88% of the oil industry. Hilariously enough... they were were sued by the same exact people who helped create them. And what happened to that whale? They just changed their name to Exxon who is STILL the worlds #1 oil manufacturer.

Same thing with search engines. Before Google nobody really GAF where they did their searches. Then Google came in and swallowed up all the sharks.

People love to say "all monopolies die". And yes, on a long enough time line everything comes to an end. However, there is an inherent flaw many people miss in this logic. Which is the fact that monopolies are usually the >>>LAST in line to die. Just look at history, it's nearly always their "competitors" who die first.

Are humans a monopoly? As a species? Sure. But guess what? The SUN is gonna outlive us all. There are so many metaphors and analogies a person can make.

Bing and Yahoo are like sharks. Sharks have an average life span of 20-25 years.
Google is a whale. The average life span of a whale is 70 years.

Bing and Yahoo are like oak trees. Average life span of an oak is 300 years.
Google is a giant Sequoia. Average life span of a Sequoia is 3000 years.

I realize how comforting it is to think that Bing and Yahoo may 1 day eat Google. Same way it's comfortable to believe that we all might be billionaires 1 day. But just imagine this picture in your head. It's a picture of 2 giant 1 ton Tiger Sharks trying to eat a Blue Whale. Nipping at it's tail fin. Staying away from the whales mouth but going apeshit trying to eat his fins. They might even get their sons, daughters, brothers and cousins to help nip at this blue whales fins.

But now imagine this picture.

It's a picture of this 190+ tonne ton Blue Whale getting grumpy. You can see it in his eyes now that he's clearly pissed off. So he turns his head back and just looks at these jealous little bastards nipping at his fin.

Then he decides to slowly hoist his body to the side.... and quickly whips that giant fucking 30 tonne tail fin as fast as possible crushing all these tiger sharks and bones to pieces coloring the water to a red fog of blood. Then thousands of baby bluefish and minnows come swimming in to eat up the remains of all the dead tiger sharks.

Even the best marketers on this forum. They are still just bluefish. The guys making 10k a month are like baby minnows. The newbs making $20-$30/day are like the invisible plankton floating in the sea. They're feeding off something but nobody's quite sure wtf that is. Cause.... well, nobody quite gives a fuck.

Moral of the story: Google is a Blue Whale. You can be the big bad Hammerhead, Tiger Shark, w/e but you still don't fuck with the Blue Whale.