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Not a bad article. I hadn't heard of a few of these. If anything is going to take market share away from Google, I think it's Twitter. Being able to search "li

• michaelneale 17y ago
  Well I think it will be something that is "not search" - not to so much take market share away, but to make their business less relevant (like google has sort of done with Microsoft). Twitter may be it, but I don't think its different enough...
• davidw 17y ago
  In tech, what tends to happen, rather than someone losing or gaining much market share, is that the market is redefined, or new ones open up that are bigger and more important. I.e. Microsoft didn't take any mainframe share from IBM, Google hasn't taken any OS market share from Microsoft.
  • michaelneale 17y ago
    Damn - I just said the same thing as you, only I think you said it clearer ;)
  • chaosmachine 17y ago
    You're right, the pie is always growing, but there are some queries that just work better on Twitter, even though you might get reasonable results on Google with enough digging. In those cases, Google loses as people learn to start trying Twitter first. An example: Last night I was trying to find a stream of a live hockey game. Google was finding lots of forum threads about previous games, but nothing current. So I tried Twitter, and there was a link in the second result. Next time I'm looking for a live stream, I'll probably search Twitter first.