I don't know about dying, but definitely more hidden from view. Google owns a huge share of the search market and a lot of the remainder information discovery i

I don't know about dying, but definitely more hidden from view. Google owns a huge share of the search market and a lot of the remainder information discovery is on the large social portals. Alt search engines do offer an alternative view to what's out there, but are not on the scale of Google and many of them are ultimately meta search engines relying on Bing for crawling and indexing.