When watching talks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs I'd be surprised if Google's search model couldn'

When watching talks like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vShMxxqtDDs I'd be surprised if Google's search model couldn't be leap-frogged if a competitor were to have live access to Google's dataset. That if is actually Google's biggest strategic advantage though: the resources to keep a near-live and nicely deduplicated copy of all relevant data on the internet. [PS1] That's why by far the biggest strategic threat to Google is actually JavaScript UIs + RESTful APIs and the easily accessible data sources they form. Google's demise will eventually come in the form of the adoption of protocols which allow you to efficiently maintain a live view of a service's public resources. [PS1] And as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011816 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011816 click-throughs of course, although I don't see a way to side-step that with Google having implemented [not provided]