Search
Beyond Google
Google has a large lead over its rivals in U.S. audience share,
accounting for 77 percent of all searches in August 2003 (including
searches conducted at AOL and Yahoo!, which used the Google search
engine). But in the search industry, innovation is a wild card. In
1999, you could have said that AltaVista had pretty much finished
off the search market,notes Whit Andrews, a research director at
technology advisory firm Gartner. In 1997, it was Inktomi. In 1995,
it was Yahoo!. You never know in the search business when there?s
somebody down the street who is going to make you look like
yesterday's news.
Good article on
the future of search engines. One that caught my eye was
Mooter; I'll be watching that
one closely. [via Lockergnome's Technology
News]
Great piece! I took a quick look at Mooter, and I was very
impressed. I certainly remember the internal emails that brought
AltaVista, AllTheWeb, and eventually Google to my attention. Of
course there will be search beyond Google, that's what makes us
human (our