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Google is so last year
Blog Posting November 29, 2011 by Adam Pode
Tags: Internet , Google , Bing , Duckduckgo , Blekko , ebsco , factiva , Lexis Nexis ,
Proquestion , Thomson Reuters
I am “old” enough to have lived through the dot.com bubble. After which a large number of
useful online resources and technologies disappeared because they could not answer the
question “who pays?” Google appears to have reached this same point. Why fund resources
such as the Wonder wheel, + searching, Google labs possibly even advanced searching and
most viewed news if they are not used and do not pay.
I understand the need for an income stream, after all if you do not sign up as a member for
the excellent research products that we offer, then I don’t get paid. However, this conundrum
does raise an interesting point. Where will analysts and other information professional go if
Google, which as we have discussed before represents 85% of searches currently, starts to
focus only on consumers.
There are no Google killers out there, but Marydee Ojala in an excellent presentation at the
Online Information Conference, did highlight some resources that may be of use to you.
Bing, we have already discussed, but there is also:
Blekko
Duck Duck Go
I predict paid search and the invisible web are about to have a second renaissance. Old
friends such as:
Ebsco
Factiva
Lexis Nexis
Proquest
Thomson Reuters
That we may have ignored for some time, as we googled it, are about to come back to
prominence.
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