{"id":474,"date":"2015-08-24T17:49:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T17:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2015-08-24T17:49:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T17:49:11","slug":"google-is-turning-into-a-newspaper-classified-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisschweppe.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Google Is Turning Into A Newspaper Classified Section"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years ago, Google used to have 82% market share, according to ComScore.<\/p>\n

Meaning that 82% of all searches to a search engine went to Google.<\/p>\n

Now the latest ComScore report has Google at 65% while Bing\/Yahoo is at 33% (Bing aka Microsoft runs Yahoo’s search engine for them).<\/p>\n

Most people aren’t stupid. They see that Google is becoming more and more like a classified section in a newspaper. It’s becoming nothing but ads.<\/p>\n

My prediction is that because of constant shenanigans<\/a>, that Bing and Yahoo will become more popular and more widely used. <\/span><\/p>\n

The reason why Google triumphed over all the other search engines like Hot-Bot, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, etc is because their brand became, “we have the best organic results and best content”. <\/span><\/p>\n

I think Google is being too short-sighted. probably under pressure from stockholders to grow profits right now. <\/span><\/p>\n

But they’re losing their brand. <\/span><\/p>\n

Google was once beloved in the webmaster, seo communities. Now they’re becoming despised. <\/span><\/p>\n

I really think more and more people will start to see what Google is. A website with advertisements. That’s what Google is turning in to. <\/span><\/p>\n

And i think more people will turn to Bing and Yahoo as viable alternatives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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