Anyone else feel Google is doing too much and could become a monopoly?

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I guess at this point I don't have a whole lot of reasoning because Yahoo and MSN won't let it happen too easily, but slowly and surely google is beating them at their own games, especially email.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I'm looking fwd to seeing google auctions.

 

[Albis]

google has already taken over as the monopoly search engine with everyone i know

now with the personalizable homepage, i see no reason to even check msn or yahoo

 

[Acanthus]

being the ultra-easy-to-make-and-run-your-own type schema of the internet, id say its too easy for a google competitor to come along, so far all of their success has been innovation or just smart marketing and features that MS and friends shouldve had out there a long time ago.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
being the ultra-easy-to-make-and-run-your-own type schema of the internet, id say its too easy for a google competitor to come along, so far all of their success has been innovation or just smart marketing and features that MS and friends shouldve had out there a long time ago.

I think the simplicity is what gets me too

 

[her209]

Some search engine will come along and one-up them.

 

[CrackRabbit]

They are already headed down the same road Yahoo! did 10 years ago. It wont be long before we start seeing Google Messenger, Google Auctions and any other number of Google sites and softwares....

 

[HardcoreRobot]

if they continue to provide the quality of services they have thus far, id let them babysit my kids and wash my car

what are you afraid of?

 

[CrackRabbit]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
if they continue to provide the quality of services they have thus far, id let them babysit my kids and wash my car

what are you afraid of?

That they will become bloated and useless like yahoo.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
if they continue to provide the quality of services they have thus far, id let them babysit my kids and wash my car

what are you afraid of?

A monopoly, no competition is bad! Right now, I have no reason to visit Yahoo, MSN, Altavista, etc.

 

[neonerd]

google > *

You're not looking at the big picture though...on here, it seems everybody is using google; It's true here, and here only. Don't forget, when you install Windows, your home page is MSN...Many people ho buy computers, leave that as their home page, and love it. They use the MSN search engine all the time.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: neonerd
google > *

You're not looking at the big picture though...on here, it seems everybody is using google; It's true here, and here only. Don't forget, when you install Windows, your home page is MSN...Many people ho buy computers, leave that as their home page, and love it. They use the MSN search engine all the time.

Everyone I know who wants to search just goes to google first, especially at school. I think the age group that has been brought up with computers is using google

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: neonerd
google > *

You're not looking at the big picture though...on here, it seems everybody is using google; It's true here, and here only. Don't forget, when you install Windows, your home page is MSN...Many people ho buy computers, leave that as their home page, and love it. They use the MSN search engine all the time.

Everyone I know who wants to search just goes to google first, especially at school. I think the age group that has been brought up with computers is using google

Could be some truth to this.

I'm 42 and still use Yahoo. Once in a blue Moon I'll use Google.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
if they continue to provide the quality of services they have thus far, id let them babysit my kids and wash my car

what are you afraid of?

qft.

if google ran a nursing home, I'd drop my parents off tomorrow

 

[Siddhartha]

I could see being concerned if Google could get control of the internet. But I do not see that happening.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: CrackRabbit

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
if they continue to provide the quality of services they have thus far, id let them babysit my kids and wash my car

what are you afraid of?

That they will become bloated and useless like yahoo.

like yahoo was ever not useless

 

[BrokenVisage]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: neonerd
google > *

You're not looking at the big picture though...on here, it seems everybody is using google; It's true here, and here only. Don't forget, when you install Windows, your home page is MSN...Many people ho buy computers, leave that as their home page, and love it. They use the MSN search engine all the time.

Everyone I know who wants to search just goes to google first, especially at school. I think the age group that has been brought up with computers is using google

Could be some truth to this.

I'm 42 and still use Yahoo. Once in a blue Moon I'll use Google.

I'm 22 and have ALWAYS used Yahoo! to search and never even think to use Google sometimes.

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: HardcoreRobot
if they continue to provide the quality of services they have thus far, id let them babysit my kids and wash my car

what are you afraid of?

qft.

if google ran a nursing home, I'd drop my parents off tomorrow

Yup. I'd let google date my daughter

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Google is being overrun by these crappy fake website results I've been using Yahoo again for some searches recently.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: BrokenVisage

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo

Originally posted by: neonerd
google > *

You're not looking at the big picture though...on here, it seems everybody is using google; It's true here, and here only. Don't forget, when you install Windows, your home page is MSN...Many people ho buy computers, leave that as their home page, and love it. They use the MSN search engine all the time.

Everyone I know who wants to search just goes to google first, especially at school. I think the age group that has been brought up with computers is using google

Could be some truth to this.

I'm 42 and still use Yahoo. Once in a blue Moon I'll use Google.

I'm 22 and have ALWAYS used Yahoo! to search and never even think to use Google sometimes.

how do you manage? I had to use Yahoo last week (?) when Google was down and I was amazed by its pure suckiness.

 

[Staples]

I think Microsoft should watch out for google because they are emerging. I am not scared of them though, their products are good and free for now and they may actually give MS some competition for once.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Staples
I think Microsoft should watch out for google because they are emerging. I am not scared of them though, their products are good and free for now and they may actually give MS some competition for once.

Hell, that brings up another point, if Google wanted to charge a premium service fee or something, I'd be paying it!

 

[Miramonti]

Question is how long until they introduce a service that actually takes our names and phone numbers etc. At that point I'll start getting nervous when using them for everything. (Yahoo and msn did this long ago with shopping, travel, and subscription based services etc.)

 

[z0mb13]

what I see is google becoming yahoo..

 

[eelw]

Can you get a monopoly when a company is offering free services?