Comments on: A World Without Google

By: seo consultant

seo consultant — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:47:24 +0000

T think without search engine, there is no worth of internet. As google is the king of internet these days people depend on it for their business improvement. I cant imagine the world without Google.

Anyways, you have chosen a very unique topic. Interesting!

By: SEO

SEO — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:53:44 +0000

Intereting topic ! the internet without google? can anybody imagine?

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:53:22 +0000

Google is just too big, I hope Yahoo will make it.

By: cookiecomic

cookiecomic — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 04:46:56 +0000

Interesting topic indeed. That is very sad fact. It would be very good if Google had better competition.

By: Irish gift Ideas

Irish gift Ideas — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:52:11 +0000

Hello Barry - nice post.

It’s not that Google is just important to advertising and to generating online sales - it’s that they ARE advertising and online sales. Disappear from Google, and you are essentially done. I know there are a few peculiar cases where that has not been the case, but I shudder to think how my business would fare if that happened to us.

By: David Leonhardt

David Leonhardt — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:21:58 +0000

The interesting thing is that there are a lot of marketers who do very well without Google. There are some that rely on MySpace or FaceBook. Others rely on email and networking (the old fashioned way, both online and off). Generally, these tend to be solopreneaurs or infopreneurs or whatever tag you want to give them, rather than companies.

That being said, many companies use offline methods, such as trade shows, brochures and advertising to drive traffic to their websites.

For whatever reason, SEO has always come easier to me, but I am about to embark on a project that really will depend more on offline PR and online networking for success. If Google comes along to play, that’s just a bonus.

By: Alexandra

Alexandra — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:27:09 +0000

Interesting topic indeed. Well, i guess it would be very hard to live on internet without google and other search engines. That is very said fact. I guess biggest profits then would take best domain names as we would all need to type keyword domains in order to find something. But luckily we do have google. It would be very good if Google had better competition, because it’s like a industry game.

By: Xurxo Vidal

Xurxo Vidal — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:56:59 +0000

Hi Barry,

My guess is that in a world void of search engines, online marketing would take form perhaps by way of network and affiliate marketing not unlike how online advertising was done before the advent of search marketing came into existence.

I see that ad networks similar to Google’s content network would likely be a major force in online advertising except that the larger networks would be managed by entities other than search engines. I image that it would be necessary to advertise on a wide variety of networks to have a comparable reach but most likely not the same degree of targeting that the search engines, namely Google offer today.

On a personal level, I would likely be involved in managing campaigns on those networks instead of on the search engines’ platforms or who knows, I might be doing something altogether different like managing Ebay auctions as I did in a past life.

I wonder how innovative the other engines / portals would have been if Google’s rapid rise to success had not sent most of them the way of the dinosaur?