Living through momentum
Peep through the gates of the Internet Cemetery, and you can see the gravediggers are never idle. Day after day, hour after hour, the dead domains come in, ready to be interred with all the other websites which withered from a lack of interest, ran out of money, were overtaken by a rival with snazzier technology, or just lost their cool.
Netscape’s heading there, and so, too, is Friends Reunited. And, if last week’s runes are read correctly, the day may not be far off when Second Life, Facebook and Twitter end up there too. Read more at www.independent.co.uk
The death of Google is right here in the combination of Open Intelligence and Amplify.
Read more at openintelligence.amplify.com
The only reason I think Google may avoid the sort of death described here is that it has financial momentum on its side. It seems to me that it is big enough (and ugly enough?!) to continue despite the challenges. It has the capacity to include social networking aspects in its searches, and already benefits from being able to crawl content provided by networks created under other platforms.
Twitter tends to be competing with it for my searches now, although only in those areas where my network is likely to have an interest. I am more likely to continue using Google (or other engines, depending on my whim) for areas outside my community’s specific domain of interest.
simon eaton April 5, 2009 7:08 pm
Let’s hope so. Google’s limitations seem more apparent in the context of Web 2. It’s a good search engine, but now compromised by commercial interests IMO - after all it’s not an Open company! - but it can’t provide what collaborative intelligence can.