Who will topple first? Google or Microsoft?
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Will Google ever be toppled from search? Will MS ever be toppled from OS or from Office apps? If so, which will happen first? In theory it should be easier to topple Google than MS. In practice Google seems to be just as hard to topple as MS.
Kevin
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Ever? You mean like in 50,000,000,000 years time? Of course, both will be long gone. (Sorry but the question is useless to ask. Even if you define "Ever" as "in 5 years" you'll be a monkey's uncle if you guess right. Who would have predicted MySpace losing to Facebook so quickly? Altavista to Yahoo to Google so quickly? Now we have this "dominant" phase going on and... impossible to say when it will end and by whom.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
I wasn't quite net-savvy back then, so I don't know about Altavista, but Myspace always was god-awful. Don't even mention Orkut.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
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Will Google ever be toppled from search? Will MS ever be toppled from OS or from Office apps? If so, which will happen first? In theory it should be easier to topple Google than MS. In practice Google seems to be just as hard to topple as MS.
Kevin
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Will Google ever be toppled from search? Will MS ever be toppled from OS or from Office apps? If so, which will happen first? In theory it should be easier to topple Google than MS. In practice Google seems to be just as hard to topple as MS.
Kevin
Planet Earth - at the rate we're heading.
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Ever? You mean like in 50,000,000,000 years time? Of course, both will be long gone. (Sorry but the question is useless to ask. Even if you define "Ever" as "in 5 years" you'll be a monkey's uncle if you guess right. Who would have predicted MySpace losing to Facebook so quickly? Altavista to Yahoo to Google so quickly? Now we have this "dominant" phase going on and... impossible to say when it will end and by whom.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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I wasn't quite net-savvy back then, so I don't know about Altavista, but Myspace always was god-awful. Don't even mention Orkut.
Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)
Vikram, On the side note, was AP really tensed with the telangana issue.. Being in Germany , I could not gauge the mood in India My old geography book is missing around 5-6 states already :)
cheers, Super ------------------------------------------ Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Will Google ever be toppled from search? Will MS ever be toppled from OS or from Office apps? If so, which will happen first? In theory it should be easier to topple Google than MS. In practice Google seems to be just as hard to topple as MS.
Kevin
If Google was just in the Search business, then it would have been toppled easily. If Microsoft was just in the OS business, then it would have been toppled easily. Fortunately, both businesses have expanded into different areas which makes it difficult for anyone to topple them. Both companies will continue to acquire other companies to expand their competencies. I think new players will emerge but not at the expense of Google or MS.
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Will Google ever be toppled from search? Will MS ever be toppled from OS or from Office apps? If so, which will happen first? In theory it should be easier to topple Google than MS. In practice Google seems to be just as hard to topple as MS.
Kevin
There are Google alternatives out there/far weaker though/, but there are no alternatives for the Microsoft’s OS or Dev Tools. So I would say that Google is more fragile than MC. Edit: Additionally I wouldn’t bet my money on a company which entire income is based on advertisements, adds etc. Edit2: Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to see either of the both company going under. Microsoft made the computer useful and Google made Internet useful, so they both deserve to exist.
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modified on Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:52 AM
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Ever? You mean like in 50,000,000,000 years time? Of course, both will be long gone. (Sorry but the question is useless to ask. Even if you define "Ever" as "in 5 years" you'll be a monkey's uncle if you guess right. Who would have predicted MySpace losing to Facebook so quickly? Altavista to Yahoo to Google so quickly? Now we have this "dominant" phase going on and... impossible to say when it will end and by whom.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
The "ever" was an afterthought, partly addressed to those who seem to think that the only way of overcoming Microsoft or Google is by legislation. :)
Kevin
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Planet Earth - at the rate we're heading.
Software Kinetics (requires SL3 beta) - Moving software
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If Google was just in the Search business, then it would have been toppled easily. If Microsoft was just in the OS business, then it would have been toppled easily. Fortunately, both businesses have expanded into different areas which makes it difficult for anyone to topple them. Both companies will continue to acquire other companies to expand their competencies. I think new players will emerge but not at the expense of Google or MS.
Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Fortunately, both businesses have expanded into different areas which makes it difficult for anyone to topple them.
Well, I really meant topple them in their core products. I don't expect either to be toppled solely by their being toppled in their core products. However, I would say that, for me, it is the combination of their other products that makes it difficult for me to junk their core products. E.g., I use a number of Google's cloud apps. and it is convenient to also combine those with its search products. So Bing/Yahoo would have to be much better to win me over.
Kevin
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CSS and his head of conspiracy theories - the last thing I need on a Thursday afternoon.
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If Google was just in the Search business, then it would have been toppled easily. If Microsoft was just in the OS business, then it would have been toppled easily. Fortunately, both businesses have expanded into different areas which makes it difficult for anyone to topple them. Both companies will continue to acquire other companies to expand their competencies. I think new players will emerge but not at the expense of Google or MS.
Google is in the advertising business. They may have competencies in hundreds of other areas but over 90% of its revenues come from advertising. Invent a better advertising system and Google will topple. It will be unable to sustain all its free services. You don't have to compete with Google's email or mobile OS products, you only have to compete with their advertising product (good luck with that.) (Just saying you shouldn't confuse what a company does with what pays the bills. Microsoft has expensive departments carried by just a few core departments that make all the money. So they are susceptible too.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote:
Fortunately, both businesses have expanded into different areas which makes it difficult for anyone to topple them.
Well, I really meant topple them in their core products. I don't expect either to be toppled solely by their being toppled in their core products. However, I would say that, for me, it is the combination of their other products that makes it difficult for me to junk their core products. E.g., I use a number of Google's cloud apps. and it is convenient to also combine those with its search products. So Bing/Yahoo would have to be much better to win me over.
Kevin
That is from a user perspective though. If someone came along and took all of Google's advertising business then Google would have to can the free cloud apps and you'd be forced elsewhere. So to topple Google you topple their advertising revenue (not search.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
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There are Google alternatives out there/far weaker though/, but there are no alternatives for the Microsoft’s OS or Dev Tools. So I would say that Google is more fragile than MC. Edit: Additionally I wouldn’t bet my money on a company which entire income is based on advertisements, adds etc. Edit2: Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to see either of the both company going under. Microsoft made the computer useful and Google made Internet useful, so they both deserve to exist.
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modified on Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:52 AM
Deyan Georgiev wrote:
There are Google alternatives out there/far weaker though
I wouldn't say they are far weaker, but they are weaker though. They need to be better to make any headway, not just as good.
Deyan Georgiev wrote:
there are no alternatives for the Microsoft’s OS or Dev Tools
I thought there were plenty of alternatives. Perhaps you mean there are no half decent alternatives?
Deyan Georgiev wrote:
I wouldn’t bet my money on a company which entire income is based on advertisements
Google's isn't, though the bulk of it is.
Kevin
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Will Google ever be toppled from search? Will MS ever be toppled from OS or from Office apps? If so, which will happen first? In theory it should be easier to topple Google than MS. In practice Google seems to be just as hard to topple as MS.
Kevin
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That is from a user perspective though. If someone came along and took all of Google's advertising business then Google would have to can the free cloud apps and you'd be forced elsewhere. So to topple Google you topple their advertising revenue (not search.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
Paul Watson wrote:
That is from a user perspective though.
It comes down to users ultimately.
Paul Watson wrote:
So to topple Google you topple their advertising revenue (not search.)
How would you topple their advertising model without producing a product that consumers want to use?
Kevin
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Will Google ever be toppled from search? Will MS ever be toppled from OS or from Office apps? If so, which will happen first? In theory it should be easier to topple Google than MS. In practice Google seems to be just as hard to topple as MS.
Kevin
Google. If Microsoft wants to hit Google hard, all they need to do is ship IE with a built-in ad blocker that blocks Google AdSense ads. Boom, Google comes crying and screaming like a little baby.
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Google is in the advertising business. They may have competencies in hundreds of other areas but over 90% of its revenues come from advertising. Invent a better advertising system and Google will topple. It will be unable to sustain all its free services. You don't have to compete with Google's email or mobile OS products, you only have to compete with their advertising product (good luck with that.) (Just saying you shouldn't confuse what a company does with what pays the bills. Microsoft has expensive departments carried by just a few core departments that make all the money. So they are susceptible too.)
cheers, Paul M. Watson.
I agree with you partially. But people advertise on Google because lot of people use their search because their search is good. Same thing about the Google apps. Companies advertise in Superbowl (or cricket world cup final) because more people watch it. What I am interested in seeing is how the revenues are divided across different departments (search, apps, maps etc).
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Paul Watson wrote:
That is from a user perspective though.
It comes down to users ultimately.
Paul Watson wrote:
So to topple Google you topple their advertising revenue (not search.)
How would you topple their advertising model without producing a product that consumers want to use?
Kevin
Advertisers are users too. Their adoption of Google has helped make Google popular (and a bit chicken/egg with users using Google making Google attractive to advertisers and round we go.) But I agree that other users are important too and of course you have to make a product users want. I'm just saying that you have to take Google's money to topple them. You can build a better email system than GMail or build a better browser than Chrome or build X better than Google's version and you won't topple them. Building a better search would hurt Google but their advertising revenue isn't all off the back of their search traffic anymore. So you want to beat Google at advertising if you want to topple Google. Of course, Google would try to simply buy you out at an early stage if you had a better system than theirs. Microsoft is a bit more diversified than Google.
Kevin McFarlane wrote:
How would you topple their advertising model without producing a product that consumers want to use?
You don't need to invent the better product. You need ad-space for your better-advertising system. There are popular websites (Facebook) and products (mobile phones) that would only too happily use your better advertising system over Google's. This is why you don't really need to target the users, you target the ad-space and the ad-buyers. Obviously Google owns quite a bit of ad-space (google.com and Ad-Sense using websites) but the web is big and changing advertising systems is easier than trying to build your own ad-space site for your better advertising system.
cheers, Paul M. Watson.