This article from Time Magazine shows that Google today has unveiled an upgrade to their popular search, called "universal search". The idea here is that when you're searching, instead of searching for video using videos.google.com or images like images.google.com, you just enter the search in the box, and all relevant search results will be categorized accordingly. If it's an image, the image will be shown, and if it's a video, then a video will be shown.
I just tried going to Google now, but it's still the same Google, I guess they haven't initiated the change quite yet on the google.ca site. Google is still the king of search having a commanding 64% of the search market, Yahoo with 22% and MSN with 9%. However, this begs the question how far can Google have the lead? Remember how Palm used to have a commanding lead over Microsoft? Now, Palm is not the disputed leader in PDAs. Same for Windows NT or for Internet Explorer, Microsoft seems to always catch up. However, Microsoft is having a tough time competing in the search space, so it'll be interesting to see how Microsoft will try to combat Google. Yahoo is going real strong into social networking, and I wonder when Google will start to realize that social networking will power searching, that sometimes you want to find things through your social network. But it seems so far, the Google search is king, even if you can't find your search result within the first 5 results.
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