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I'd say no. Like with Facebook, what replaces Google won't look like a search engine, or a social media portal, it will be... ?
by wavephorm 15y ago
I'd say no. Like with Facebook, what replaces Google won't look like a search engine, or a social media portal, it will be... ?
- dgunn 15y agoI'm not sure why people keep saying this. I'm not reinventing either of these things but I suspect, like the services they each replaced, they too will be replaced with things that look strikingly similar to themselves. For an oversimplified example, FB replaced myspace with a service that looked a lot like myspace did originally. One of the biggest things they had going was the simplicity of use and the cookie-cutter look of everyone's profile. Myspace, at the time, was full of 'pimped' profiles that made their experience suck. Facebook will continue to add more and more fluff (games, etc..) until it doesn't work well as a tool to stay connected with people. Once this happens someone will show up with something that looks a lot like facebook did when it started. But because they're so dissimilar at the time, people will continue this adage of, "what ever replaces X won't look much like X". But it probably just will if you correct for time.
- ariabov 15y agoI think you are right in that if there is something that replaces Google for search, it will probably be like Google in its early days. Since the roll out of the Social Search feature, I have been finding myself wanting "classic" Google more and more (I am sure I am not alone here)