I thought there was no life after Google when I leaned from my grade eight son about Dog pile. an alternative search that combines search from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and Live Search. They also have a NEW select search for sourcing online media videos. Out of curiosity I did a search on both YouTube and Dog Pile for the number of Rolling Stone online videos. On DogPile there were thirty listed…. On You Tube, there were 21,400. So Google’s powerful engine backing YouTube (which Google recently acquired for $1.65B) , there is definitely more search zip in Google vs using Dogpile. However, one experiment does not guarantee accuracy, hence - I did another search. This time I chose to search for the number of doghits on both Dogpile and Google. I found that on Google, there were 131 million references to dogs listed on Google and on Dogpile, there were only 94 search results.
What this relatively small sample search experiment did show that the dog in Dogpile.com translates to a real dog. I told my son that I will continue to use Google, as my business and personal search engine of choice.
Can you imagine a world without Google going forward?
It will only be a matter of time before Google penetrates all wiring of intelligence of the future. Just imagine how much better when I can simply talk to my watch or cell phone, driving panel or my kitchen fridge and my search requests appear instantly. The world of ubiquitous and pervasive computing is well underway and Google has a head start in this new world order - this much is certain. So is the future of Google a target buy out by Cisco? Only time will tell but even Google will be one day acquired — the question is only who will be the dominant player in the takeover. Only a few could swallow such a Goliath? Cisco, IBM, Microsoft …to name just a few.