Here’s a thread in the forum I just stumbled across:

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree on that. The Google era is FAR from over. They dominated for the past 10 years, and they will dominate for the next 10 years. Right now, I see nobody coming even near Google. My prediction is that it’s going to be at least another 5-10 years before we see another player coming even close to Google, let alone take over it.

Come on, cuil was just a complete disaster. Complete joke. Just look at the search results. I don’t even see it overtaking ask.com. And searchme, yes, it does have the fancy itunes coverflow rip-off visual look, but the speed is painfully slow and I don’t see it going anywhere. Plus, I don’t see how they are capable of updating those images of websites everyday if they are changing everyday. Maybe because its still in beta mode and they’ve got something up their sleeves which is going to surprise the entire industry.

And you can say there’s a third player, mahalo. To be honest, in my opinion, it’s probably got more chance than cuil or searchme. But, I have a feeling its probably going to become more of a wikipedia.

You have to remember that Google does more than just providing search results – google checkout, google earth, google maps, adsense/adwords, analytics, chrome, youtube, blogger, orkut, google trends etc. It seems that they are rolling out new features every single day… just crazy. Plus, look at the offline things they’re doing. They’ve just released Android which perhaps could take over iPhone (making no predicitions on that). And if you been to San Fransisco, the wireless network there is just completely dominated by Google and allows super-targeted advertsing. So probably by the time somebody catches up with Google in 5 years time, Google is probably already another 5 years ahead…

It’s easy to say Google is falling, but I’m sorry to say it’s not coming anytime soon.