“We’re a search engine . . . no wait we’re a portal . . . and Gootube!”
It’s scary: Google can decide at any time to steal the top spot for itself . . . like it did for finance, travel and most recently for movie searches:
“Sorry IMDB but we’d rather just have all those top spots for ourselves. 2nd is not that bad though.”
Will it stop? I doubt it. Google’s going to take the top spots on every vertical they want.
I’m not so sure I welcome our new Robot Overlords anymore.
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It’s appearing for music (singers actually) searches as well. When I saw it yesterday I just thought it was put there by “Customize Google” (Firefox) or another plugin but…
Google has reached the apex of her empire and has forgot what had
brought them success. Their SE is running on the fumes of their reputation.
It is a long, steep way down for them.
Great topic. I wonder what’s next. Since GOOG is public and Wall St is clamering, I guess it’s not surprising.
that top spot for movie searches leads to a vertical Google search engine for films, that then leads to other websites. That’s not as bad as Yahoo directing you to Yahoo! Movies.
Hadn’t they been selling ads on that space? Why can’t they sell that ad space o themselves? I see no difference between them keeping that space for themselves and selling it to someone else…
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Ya I noticed it alredy… but this is a great post man. Thanks a lot