Back when I predicted this in January, I recall worrying I was calling it too early. Now it appears the timing was about right. From Mashable:
…while Google grew from June to July, it still lost market share to its competitors – from 66.1% in June to 64.8% in July, a 1.3 percentage point drop.
From my prediction: 3. Google will see search share decline significantly for the first time ever. It will also struggle to find an answer to the question of how it diversifies its revenue in 2009.
There’s more to be said on that second point, revenue diversification. More on that after the summer break I’m supposedly on.