Honeymoon Over For Google?

scubacuda writes "Business Week has an article on some of the challenges Google faces as it gains popularity. For a while, things were looking good: unobtrusive ads, a hardware search appliance, and the fact that 'google' has become a verb (like xerox, kleenex, hoover, etc.). Now, Yahoo! has dropped the 'exclusive' part of its contract, Overture won a series of key contracts, Verity has announced a deal to purchase Inktomi's assets, and Y! announced it was buying Inktomi's web-search business. And other engines such as WiseNut, Teoma, and FAST now mimic Google's 'popularity placement technology.'"

Comments

Re:IN SOVIET RUSSIA

[saskboy]

You moron, it is "Google googles You"!

Re:Wisenut?

[caluml]

I use my windows box to do net stuff (cuz face it, alot of browser plugins and such arent available on windows)

Such as?

Listen, until people start seeing the Linux browser count start going up in their weblogs, they won't bother making these strangely unknown "plugins and such" for Linux.

Fuck companies that don't release stuff for Linux. Yeah, that's what I said. Fuck em. There have been times when having Windows would have been easier. Or when I wanted a game. But I've made my decision. I'm not going to change my OS cos narrowminded companies don't support it. If they don't want my money, well that's their problem. Plenty of linux friendly companies do. And they'll be the ones that come out on top.

I'll grant you that you can't do somethings without Windows - but surfing the net? Please.

Re:Wisenut?

[iggymanz]

I do my photo scanning & turbotax on my old windows 98se machine....but you know, that P200 will run X apps just fine, but not most of today's bloated window managers. Just for fun you might want to try lightweight one, just do "X11 lightweight window manager" in google.