"Why Google Must Die"

Today I stumbled across the article titled "Why Google Must Die" which immediately captured my attention!

I can really relate to what this guy has gone through because my company provides SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) services.

The article rants mostly but also raises some interesting problems of the Google Search system, which are:

- Inconsistent and non-repeatable search results
- Individualised results (eg. iGoogle services)
- Search results tend to be commerce-oriented (less informative)
- Parked sites (sites which don't contain any credible information) being displayed
- Searching for "Art Jenkins" did not return www.artjenkins.com
- etc

John concludes "... over the years there have been numerous attempts at creating an advanced search mechanism utilizing check boxes and a question-and-response AI network. You'd think that idea would have gotten further than it has. Hopefully, someone will conceptualize something new that works better than what we have today. The situation is just deteriorating too fast."

I believe there is going to be a paradigm shift in search. PageRank technology supplemented by social input. Likely opportunity in the niche space.

Oblong's G-Speak Spatial Operating System

With touch interactive user interfaces being such a hot area of the market right now, it is interesting to so Oblong's new concept reminiscent of Speilberg's Minority Report.


g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Google Runs 10% of Websites!

This news shocked me a little when I first read about it on Cnet.

Who'd imagine that Google serves approx. 10 million websites? That's about 10% of the public web space!

The other traditionally dominant web servers are Apache and Microsoft's IIS, which have been around since since the dawn of time. Have a look at the data below.


Blue: Apache, Red: Microsoft, Magenta: Google, Tourqois: Other. Credit: Netcraft

The most alarming aspect of the data illustrates Google's astounding growth, not only in search space but also almost every other imaginable aspect of computing today. And they are doing ridiculously well. For example, Google Australia commands almost 90% of the search market here. "Here" being Australia Down Under.

The Google brand is now voted the most valuable brand, topling Microsoft, IBM, Intel and Coca-Cola.

The data shows another interesting trend, which is the exponential growth of the number of websites available on the web. Of course, a lot of the recent growth can be attributed to Web 2.0 and social media (Google's Blogger is an extremely popular service, I use it!) as well as websites that are bot-generated, in other words the websites are automatically created by computers and not humans.

These are trends likely to continue into the near future.