Comments on: The Year's Half Over. So How Are My Predictions Tracking?

By: Craig - the web traffic guy

Craig - the web traffic guy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:02:25 +0000

I try to read your commentary regularly and so I should know the answers but… what exactly is the Facebook self service all about?

By: yuregininsesi

yuregininsesi — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:12:11 +0000

thankyou

By: Joe M.

Joe M. — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:43:28 +0000

I think the verdict is still out on Microsoft stealing away market share with Bing. Yes that article said it happened slightly but Microsoft is also spending $250 million on their ad campaign. It will be interesting to see if they keep increasing market share without ads.

And I agree with Rahul on Twitter search but not on Facebook search. Twitter search along with all the other real time search engines being built will really be the ones that take away market share.

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By: Rahul Gaitonde

Rahul Gaitonde — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:41:27 +0000

Re: your prediction about a decline in Google's search share, I wonder whether that's truer than you think (at least by the end of the year).

Twitter and Facebook search may be small in an absolute sense now, but I bet they have very strong growth rates (is there any reliable way to measure them?) Any fresh search monetization models are also likely to spring from one or both of them. And of course to Google's consternation, Facebook's data isn't publicly indexable (and therefore not monetizable).

By: Mugs

Mugs — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:21:47 +0000

Nice write up, John. I enjoyed reading this and seeing where your head was at in January and where things are now. I look forward to the end of year wrap up.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:41:32 +0000

nice note john.

By: Pedro Andrade

Pedro Andrade — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:54:06 +0000

Dear John,
I am a long follower of your thoughts but I must say predictions are a really must see.

thanks !
PA:

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:40:44 +0000

Good update.

Still can't see the Yahoo/AOL merger - the way AOL has been split up worldwide makes any merger messy (Carphone warehouse in the UK have taken a long time to work out how to merge their Talk Talk/Tiscali/AOL UK web services).

Good call on MS search - Whilst reading your article I realised that I haven't used Google search for a month. I know I am just one person, but I can't be the only one in a similiar position.