What Do You Think Will Replace Google Search in Future?

Do you think anything will ever be written that will replace Google as the worlds leading search engine?

What about its leading competitors like Yahoo and Bing, will one of them replace Google?

Or will it never happen, why? What is your opinion?

Yahoo a leading competitor ? they've not been in the search game for many years now, they are powered by Bing.

Bing, Facebook or other social platform are probably the closest but Google wont be going anywhere fast, they've got too many assets, too much money and too much of a monopoly for anyone else to put a serious dent in them. All in all id imagine Facebook stand the best chance out the obvious crowd to bring out something unique enough to change the way the internet works..........mobile, voice search may have something to do with that. We can always hope for duck duck go to continue to grow but i think its too much of a mean feat to play on the privacy thing alone.

You never know though, the next new unique idea from a nobody could be the next step in the internet ladder........unless Google buys them out before the world finds them. abcdefghijklmenopqrstuvwxyz...............................................

Replace THE Google?
Not unless the internet breaks and Google (much like the maligned Humpty Dumpty) can not seemingly put his pieces back together.. I mean - Google most certainly is not going to be able to depend on all the King's horsemen or all the King's men.. IDK. I think THE Google is here to stay.

J.

The internet has become the repository for the world's knowledge. Being able to access that information via a search is almost as important as the information itself. It's inconceivable to me that one company will be allowed to control that function indefinitely.

Just as Tandy went, so will Google

Some sort of mind reading AI search thing? If anything replaces Google, it's gonna be a brand new idea that doesn't directly compete with existing search engines.

cheat_master30 said:

Some sort of mind reading AI search thing? If anything replaces Google, it's gonna be a brand new idea that doesn't directly compete with existing search engines.

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And will probably be made by Google

zappaDPJ said:

It's inconceivable to me that one company will be allowed to control that function indefinitely.

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You think so? I suppose it's a bit difficult for me to think in 'indefinite' terms. As for now though - Google pretty much has a lock on the search game like PE & Audentio have a lock on Xenforo themes LOL The question is who or what can ever change the game as Google has done? Or to be more specific - who can ever be Google's competition and what would they have to bring differently to the search game in order to claim Google's #1 spot??

cheat_master30 said:

Some sort of mind reading AI search thing? If anything replaces Google, it's gonna be a brand new idea that doesn't directly compete with existing search engines.

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Yep.. Mind reading AI qualifies as novel competition.

Morganna said:

And will probably be made by Google

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And would it make a difference if it was a subsidiary of Google? LOL

J.

PoetJC said:

And would it make a difference if it was a subsidiary of Google? LOL

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I bet like the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, you could make that work for Google and most internet things

Google will replace Google. Or more specifically, access to Google's crawled data will be licenced to new 'search engines', in order to minimize the risk of independant competitors rising, fending off regulators and for Google haters, creating the illusion of independance under a different set of criterias.

Google absorbs information for you to be given back benefits, but in licencing access to that data, licencees could apply looser terms since if they would not be required to harvest data either for themselves or on behalf of Google.
Search engines have a very high barrier to entry, in that technology aside, a large variety of data has to be crawled by bots and indexed for access.
Competitors can try to replicate the diversity and reach of Google's indices, but in practice this will be a niche undertaking viable only in specific markets (like China, South Korea).

Licencing access to indices was already a thing since a decade, but Google kept its own exclusive to its and its apps' use. The recent investigations in its use of internal data to limit the ability of competitors to secure visibility on their merits could potentially see this changed. Easiest fix would be licencing access to indices and APIs, so competitors could join Google in building its data hoard, while offering differentiation in features, focus and presentation (I expect this will become the principal way search engines differentiate themselves).

Morganna said:

I bet like the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon game, you could make that work for Google and most internet things

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Whoa! Are you serious?! Never even heard of that. Just googled and $33 on Amazon for the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game.
Who knew?? LOL -- LeadCrow is on to what I was hinting at though:

LeadCrow said:

Google will replace Google. Or more specifically, access to Google's crawled data will be licenced to new 'search engines' .... creating the illusion of independance under a different set of criterias.

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A great post. But what exactly would the public's response be to Google mining out data specifically about them??? And what would the legalities be? Not of the 'new' search engines persee - but legalities of selling folks' information?? Sorta reminds me of harvesting email addresses to be used for abuse And sorta sounds a bit less-than-legal.

J.

PoetJC said:

Whoa! Are you serious?! Never even heard of that.

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Really? Wow.. I thought everyone knew the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game. It's been around for years! I wasn't actually referring to the Amazon thing though - didn't know about that. It's just a case of you can get to Kevin Bacon from any movie in six moves.

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But what exactly would the public's response be to Google mining out data specifically about them??? And what would the legalities be? Not of the 'new' search engines persee - but legalities of selling folks' information?? Sorta reminds me of harvesting email addresses to be used for abuse And sorta sounds a bit less-than-legal.

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Selling access to data and APIs is actually a way to prevent the sale and transfer of data, while providing equivalent benefits. Terms can be enforced as loosely or rigidly as desired, and compliance with those terms is easy to enforce and especially monetize.
This kind of approach also allows to keep expanding the asset's fooprint without requiring extra data types to be sold separately, or devaluate the existing datasets.

Let's use an analogy here: Netflix selling access to its catalogue to other streaming services, or to stay in topic, resellers of webhosting. I don't think I heard anyone ever complaining that their data is not exclusively held by only the webhost they personally interacted with. Abstraction works like that: people only needs caring about how their direct intermediary intercats with them, all other forms of interaction between that intermediary and the source of his data/hardware is irrelevant (barring the potential existence of conceiled, dishonest actions).