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How did Google take over from Yahoo so fast and whats the next big search engine?

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  • #32
    newmills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 473 ✭✭newmills


    Lads google are just in their infancy. Missus does a lot of work for them as an external account manager. She is going out to san francisco next week to meet a few of the head honchos. Believe it or not google is on it's way to becoming one of the largest companies in the world with a huge portfolio of products.


  • #33
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Yeah it was the Google page rank. Aswell as that, the Google home page is plain except for the search box and a few useful links. Yahoo's page is full with flashing images and links. Big difference.

    I don't think there will ever (in the foreseeable future) be a new popular search engine that will take-over from Google. They're not just a search engine now. They're a brand.

    Google maps, Google Chrome and Google owned Youtube will keep them firmly ahead of any competitors for quite some time.


  • #34
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Mark200 wrote: »
    Yeah it was the Google page rank. Aswell as that, the Google home page is plain except for the search box and a few useful links. Yahoo's page is full with flashing images and links. Big difference.

    I don't think there will ever (in the foreseeable future) be a new popular search engine that will take-over from Google. They're not just a search engine now. They're a brand.

    Google maps, Google Chrome and Google owned Youtube will keep them firmly ahead of any competitors for quite some time.
    A lot of people said the same thing about yahoo. Saying that yahoo didn't have the likes of youtube or maps at the time but they were still a household name. Their ads still stick in my mind. YYYaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhoooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooo ooooooooo


  • #35
    Terry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,073 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    Rb wrote: »
    Indeed. The amount of ads on Google is quickly becoming a problem imo, at least whenever I've searched for specific information on a product recently, the first three pages have been "Buy X here!!" basically.

    Going downhill quite quickly, unfortunately.
    At least there's no .gif or flash ads.


  • #36
    Sucking Diesel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3 ✭Sucking Diesel


    If home pages were removed from internet stats for popular websites, it would be intersting to see what the most popular sites were after that. First visted after home page.

    Surely google being a home page for a lot of people bucks those stats.

    /ponders


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  • #37
    zAbbo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,985 ✭✭✭✭zAbbo


    newmills wrote: »
    Lads google are just in their infancy. Missus does a lot of work for them as an external account manager. She is going out to san francisco next week to meet a few of the head honchos. Believe it or not google is on it's way to becoming one of the largest companies in the world with a huge portfolio of products.

    What you've said above could equally apply 5 years ago


  • #38
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭tech77


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Inspired by this thread:

    So there we were for years, putting everything into Yahoo.co.uk, then all of a sudden it was Google this and Google that. How did they do that?! One minute Im using Yahoo the next a friend tells me about Google and thats that. Im converted. Its not faster than Yahoo, the searches dont seem overly different. Yet its now even part of our vernacular.

    Probably its clean, uncluttered, ad-free, minimalist design.


  • #39
    musicmonky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 214 ✭✭musicmonky


    about 10 years ago hotbot was a great search engine
    yahoo wasnt a search engine it was a directory . thats what it always was.
    inktomi and later google did the search engine database for yahoo.

    what google did which was a game changer was monetize the web
    few people where making big money on the web until google arrived.
    they invented putting a price on search words and not using pop ups.

    Google are first and foremost an advertising company that just so happens to make its money via technology means.

    But what about ex Google employees and irish guys who done the farce that was http://www.cuil.com/. total epic fail. they said they had the bigger database than google. who cares if you cant find anything.


  • #40
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    Interesting fact:

    Google is actually a mis-spelling of the word Googol: the number 10 to the power of 100 (1 followed by 100 zeros). When they realised they had spelt it wrong, they just decided to not change it.


  • #41
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    musicmonky wrote: »
    But what about ex Google employees and irish guys who done the farce that was http://www.cuil.com/. total epic fail. they said they had the bigger database than google. who cares if you cant find anything.

    Give them time they might actually make it good. Hopefully they do, competition is always a good thing.


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  • #42
    Linku
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭Linku


    Yahoo! used Google Search for a while, people checked out Google and realised it was quicker, cleaner and didn't have the crap all over it that Yahoo! did and started using that.

    There's always the what seems to be little known http://search.yahoo.com that's basically the cleaner version of Yahoo!

    Edit: What's the point in these "Irish" versions of websites, it's like Nimble, the whole point of a social networking site is to be as global and big as possible, why just target yourself at an Irish audience? Fail please


  • #43
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,351 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Linku wrote: »
    Edit: What's the point in these "Irish" versions of websites, it's like Nimble, the whole point of a social networking site is to be as global and big as possible, why just target yourself at an Irish audience? Fail please

    It's not an irish version. It just has some irish guys working on it. If I remember correctly the big selling point was that it had a bigger index and it used a different method to rank the results. Unfortunately it was pretty shíte.


  • #44
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    julep wrote: »
    At least there's no .gif or flash ads.
    three times?? the AC man banned him...


  • #45
    tiger325
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭tiger325


    Google is here to stay:pac:


  • #46
    shane86
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,584 ✭✭✭shane86


    tbh Google has been replaced by wikipedia for me, handy one stop shop on pretty much anything.

    And as for porn, all those youtube like sites, much handier than google :p


    You do wonder how many people use the ones that were vying for space when we first got the net around 2000. Lycos, Jeeves, Excite, one or two others.


  • #47
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    tiger325 wrote: »
    Google is here to stay:pac:

    But they're getting greedier with Ad space. Eventually one will come along that doesnt want to make any money whatsoever. Like Wikipedia. Except a search engine.


  • #48
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    Thing that made me change was its user-friendliness, speed and the quality of the search results. I remember having to manually submit web sites to Yahoo! and it took them ages to show up in their searches. Also, there's too much clutter/those floaty ads on Yahoo, not to mention broken links.


  • #49
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ads by Google on every webpage you goto helped the whole Google taking over from Yahoo. :) like seriously, they're everywhere.


  • #50
    Húrin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,045 ✭✭✭Húrin


    I think Google won by inventing some sort of unique evolving algorhythm.


  • #51
    Queen-Mise
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,461 ✭✭✭Queen-Mise


    I use google all time, i love the completely clean homepage. No clutter, or junk on it. although have to agree more and more adds are creeping into the search pages.

    Was walking past some computers in a shopping centre this week, and altavista was the search engine on them, didn't even know it was still going.


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  • #52
    artvandulet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭artvandulet


    Here's a great list of alternatives...

    http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/13-alternative-search-engines-that-find-what-google-cant/

    :D:D


  • #53
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Ads by Google on every webpage you goto helped the whole Google taking over from Yahoo. :) like seriously, they're everywhere.
    Crikey theres another one:eek:


  • #54
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    http://www.searchme.com

    Enter your words and actually see the results. Visually stunning!


  • #55
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Biggins wrote: »
    http://www.searchme.com

    Enter your words and actually see the results. Visually stunning!
    Oooo funky but a bit too bloaty


  • #56
    ArseBurger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭ArseBurger


    Mark200 wrote: »
    I don't think there will ever (in the foreseeable future) be a new popular search engine that will take-over from Google. They're not just a search engine now. They're a brand.

    Think differently. Google like you to think they're a brand. In fact, they're an information gathering machine. What they do with that information? Who knows...

    Do no evil my hole.


  • #57
    gregpent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭gregpent


    have to admit they got greedy but now they are a big corporation and sold out so they have to make money for the investors....

    not everything in life is free but the internet has made a lot of things free.

    at least they are a while off taking on firefox with their chrome browser :pac:


  • #58
    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    Biggins wrote: »
    http://www.searchme.com

    Enter your words and actually see the results. Visually stunning!

    Impressive.


  • #59
    artvandulet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭artvandulet


    Biggins wrote: »
    http://www.searchme.com

    Enter your words and actually see the results. Visually stunning!

    Oh wow. I am finding that very uselful indeed. cheers!


  • #60
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,160 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    For me I think it was the simplicity of the whole thing and the search results tended to be better. iGoogle seems to be going against their original theory since it's basically a web portal like Yahoo, AltaVista or MSN.

    "I know what we can ask Jeeves... why does he suck?!"


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  • #61
    gregpent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭gregpent


    ask jolene, at least she gives useful results


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