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Is Google getting "Too big for its boots"?

When companies get very large and start to dominate a market there is often a consumer backlash. Just look at Microsoft and the move away from the Internet Explorer browser to Firefox. Or, in the retail trade, Tesco's dominance has aroused a sizeable group of consumers who are vociferously opposed to its further expansion. With all the talk about Google looking to provide its "own brand" mobile phones or becoming a "free" internet service provider (supported by advertising of course); I get the feeling that a backlash is beginning to grow. It is starting in Google's heartland - Searching the web. Up until now people have been happy to let Google run the show. But web searches have to be relevant to what you are looking for and presented in a useful way. Most people would expect to get the best answer for their search on the first page of Google. But, does that really happen? Here is a simple experiment that you can try. Take a search topic and look at the results that you get from Google compared to those you get from other search engines. Here are some links -If you regularly only use Google, I am willing to bet that you will be surprised. I would be very interested to hear your comments. There are email reply links at the bottom of this post.
www.ask.com
www.aol.co.uk
www.yahoo.co.uk
www.live.co.uk

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Eddie


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