Comments on: Could Ask.com Ever Topple Google? Wait, Let Me Stop Laughing First.

By: Marie stanhope

Marie stanhope — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:47:18 +0000

I would like to make ask.com my home page i have yahoo right know don`t like it But i do like what ijust saw about ask.com

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Tue, 29 May 2007 19:07:30 +0000

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By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:47:25 +0000

Ripley,

Good points — but all unlike or improbable in the short term, as you point out. With Google its just time to accept where they’re going and take advantage of it if you can when you can

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:45:50 +0000

mn seo — I would agree. In fact, it was really a bit of a rhetorical question. ;)

By: mn seo

mn seo — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:20:33 +0000

Well, to answer your question, I don’t think it is going to happen any time soon!

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Google Buys Feedburner — Thu, 24 May 2007 01:47:36 +0000

[...] but very quickly growing market. Who else has their hands in blogging like Google? Microsoft (and Ask.com – hah) are still trying to catch up in the search market. There’s a reason Google is at the [...]

By: Ripley Norta

Ripley Norta — Wed, 23 May 2007 23:28:04 +0000

Yeah I am agreeing with you, and I’m definitely just as guilty of the lazy shorthand. I’m just coming from the viewpoint that things change, sometimes slowly, but sometimes it comes out of the blue and catches everyone off guard. (Probably because that’s happening in my life at the moment.)

I reckon there are some other factors that could affect things.

a) Google make a series of serious mistakes that dull their favor in the eyes of the public. Conforming to China’s censorship rules *could* have been one of these.

b) Google alienates the people who make money off their service, forcing them to seek other revenue models and ‘recommend’ alternate search services to their readers.

c) Google alienates the people who give them money by advertising through their network. They seem pretty focussed on pleasing them at the moment.

d) Big economic downturn… the next bubble burst perhaps, or a recession, weakens them and lets a hungry startup get into a good position.

Overall, Google is in a pretty strong position, and I reckon you’re right. In the short term they are likely to get stronger, and in fact I think they’ll overtake Microsoft as the top dog in the industry.