Search Competition; Why Can’t Others Catch Up To Google?

BusinessWeek.com has a good article on search competition, explaining how Google’s continued growth amongst all the competition is practically unaffected. In short, the article goes over new features, refinements, and user interfaces and explains that it is mostly about the trust the searchers have for the Google brand to provide the best results. Take a look at Danny’s recent rant, he goes into this more and also check out Danny’s post on Daggle.com named Why Search Sucks & You Won’t Fix It The Way You Think. Want a view from a Google employee on the article, read Matt Cutts take on it, where he kinda of knocks Ask.com’s topic communities link analysis method, saying it is “hard to explain” to people.