Dominant Search Engine?

[Crescent]

There is a war going out there, but the only casualties are jobs and money… Google and Microsoft are going head to head. Google’s homepage has been my startpage since day one, but now, Microsoft is fighting back with its own homepage called Live.

Now besides the fact of having a great name, Microsoft’s Live Homepage (and other services soon to come) will surely capture an insane amount of Microsoft based users. Having the ability to integrate RSS feeds, your Hotmail account, Windows Live Safety Center, Windows Live Favorites, Windows Live Messenger and a whole lot more into a start page, they are sure to attract another user base. Right now, when I open up my Firefox, my startpage is no longer Google; instead, it’s two pages: google.com/ig and live.com.

The only question I ask myself now is: 'Too little too late?".
With Google dominating the search engine market with an algorithm that gets SEO (search engine optimization) experts nautious, will they be the final choice of end users? Or will Microsofts’s attempt to “get back in the game” be the downfall of Google?

All I am sure of at the end of the day is that healthy competition between these two giants is a good thing for us because we get to make the final decision based on what they have to offer.
Now come to think of it, that’s what’s happening with digg and shoutwire…

source: pannikos.

[Mr.Genius]

Re: Dominant Search Engine?

Nice comeback by microsoft… other companies would have given up after Google’s domination of search engine market…
Bill uncle has a secret plan for search engine come back too — in some interview, he said that the search engines are still not where they need to be and m$ is planning to revive their search engine in the next 6 months, which will be close to google — how much of that is true or will that ever come on surface – that i donno .. but I do like the Live page especially Live Favorites feature so you can have ur favorites anywhere you sign-in … Attracting users (atleast beginners) has never been a problem for M$ … they will have it as a homepage on every new pc and IE installation… along with their other sneaky ways… All in all… Good work M$

check out ideas.live.com

[Xcom_Cheetah]

Re: Dominant Search Engine?

the thing i like about google is that google always have a very light feeling to its site... They always keep it simple and straight even their messenger was so light and simple that i was surprised to see it. But it gives a very good feeling overall .. in my opinion..

[ChicagoBase]

Re: Dominant Search Engine?

What I personally think is that the difference between Google and any other company is other companies think BIG while Google works on small things that become huge because it's so simple.