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Lifer
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Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Originally posted by: Ender
Google is a titanic of force that is unrivaled because of its established reputation as being the best and rightfully delivering on these presumptions!

Google will never die.

You're forgetting how Google became a "titanic force". People abandoned Yahoo and Metacrawler and AltaVista and all the others because Google worked better. If Turbo10 works better than Google it'll become the leader. Have you been on the net for 20 seconds or are you just blind to everything that happens here? Little survives beyond a short stay as flavor of the month. AirMosaic gave way to Netscape, Navigator gave way to IE, GeoCities gave way to the fact that it sucked, Napster gave way to Morpheus which gave way to Kazaa. Ho-hum. Here today, gone tomorrow and nothing is unassailable. Whether Turbo10 kills it remains to be seen, but Google will die when something better comes along.

Morpheus was basically kazaa. When they couldnt pay the bills, they had to close business. Morpheus didnt give way to kazaa. If anything, Scour exchange gave way to kazaa.
 

stevewm

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Originally posted by: BmXStuD
I only use yahoo.com! how long has google been around, there the same company anyway.

Not so....


Yahoo, like many other sites no longer maintains their own search engine crawlers and databases. Instead they licensed Google's technology. Any search you do on Yahoo actually searches with Google. This is why you will get identical results using either site. IIRC AOL also licensed Google's search tech some time ago and any searches done from AOL's software are Google searches....
 

Well, the actual hits on the search arn't very accurate.
It needs much improvement and a whole lot more if it is to contend with google.com in anyway.
 

Zim Hosein

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It's back on-line again, it's pretty decent so far IMO :)
 

NewSc2

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I'd much rather type in Google than turbo10, because of google being all letters.

The numbers thing is a bit odd, in fact i'd rather type turboten than turbo10.
 

NewSc2

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Originally posted by: jumpr
Google is easier to type into the address bar.

damn you got to it first - i didn't update the page cuz i was reading that register.co.uk article =P
 

Soybomb

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Its hideous and cluttered. Google is an innovator in the search area with things like page rank, caching, archiving newsgroups, image search, etc. This page searches other search engines....whee. Google also has brand loyalty that is far stronger than what most other search engines had back in their day. Competition is good but they'll most likely not come anywhere close to dethroning google.
 

Zim Hosein

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Competition is good but they'll most likely not come anywhere close to dethroning google

Isn't that what they said about Yahoo?
 

Hector13

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Originally posted by: zCypher
Everyone loves google. It's not gonna touch it.

i remember a lot of people saying the same thing about yahoo.com back in the day.
 

Rastus

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From what I've seen, search engines get stale after a while, that is, searches start coming up with old, outdated links.

When I first arrived on the net scene, Webcrawler was my engine of choice. Then HotBot got hot for a while. After that, Google became the one.

Although Google is still the best search engine out there, I'm starting to have to wade through old stuff to get something relevant now. It might be getting close to time for a new, fresh search engine.
 

Legendary

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When you go to Google, it brings the cursot into the search box automatically. Turbo10 does not.
On that fact alone Google wins for me.