There has been a lot of hype over Bing and Wolfram Alpha taking over Google. I even had a client ask me if this was possible for Wolfram Alpha to take over Google and how do we position his Real Estate website for it.

Wolfram Alpha

The developer also created mathematica software, which I did use while taking upper level math classes in college. Both the Search Engine and the software is more for academics than it is for most users. It will never be competition to Google for what most people use the search engines for; unless you want to know how many protons are in the human body or some other science oriented question. I tried to look up search terms like "seattle real estate" and nothing came up at the time.

Bing

Another clone and attempt by Microsoft to gain search engine market share with a few upgrades. Problem with Microsoft gaining market share with anything is that they might charge a hefty price for something that would crash and not be compatible with your older printer and force you to upgrade, or down grade depending on how you look at it, while you are kicking and screaming for he older version to come back. IT personnal would be screaming at the top of their lungs, why me. I am having flashbacks about Vista right now. I think some out of curiosity will try it out to see if it is really all that different and then go back to their normal routine.

Overall

It will be hard to oust Google from being the number one search engine. From my experience with switching over agents to new software, even though once they use it they would never go back, is that people do not like change for the most part. Their routine is comfortable. I still wonder why people are still using Internet Explorer when Firefox and Chrome are far supperior browsers. It is part of their routine. If you're freaking out wondering if everyone will start to switch over to another search engine and what will it do to your sites position; do not start to worry yet, it will not happen over night.

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