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Although sometimes I still use Google to search Amazon. There are some corner cases that Google is better at than Amazon's search tool.


I agree. Plus I don't trust (unlike some other commenters) reviews on Amazon, so I Google for several reviews and trust the consensus of all sources. Google search is very much alive.

I think Google search will die instantly if anyone ever gets a vastly superior search product. I used to use Yahoo! in 75% of my searches mixed with others on the 25%, then along came Google and I found I could get my answers faster on 99.9% of my searches. If Yelp+Siri+Wolfram+whatever turns out to be a much better way, then goodbye Google. But I think Google is really good at building technologies, they have a lot of smart people, and they won't let someone get away with supplanting their search engine without giving it serious competition, which Yahoo! was unable to do. Google is trying to take over Yelp, they are competing with Siri, they even try to compete with Facebook. Maybe eventually they'll die, but they aren't letting anyone get the huge jump on them that they got on Yahoo!.




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