Comments on: The Future Of The Internet 2012 – Dave’s Predictions

By: DigitalMoz Internet Marketing

DigitalMoz Internet Marketing — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:12:43 +0000

Seeing the future of search in our country (Philippines), we believe that Google places will be more prominent on 3rd to 4th quarter of the year. We are also predicting that more companies will participate in to internet advertising with the penetration of mobile phones and faster mobile networks here in our country. Here are also our comments on your questions:

Will Google stay #1 when it comes to search? – Yes Google will still be the market leader on search but Bing will increase its usage for about 2-4% vs last year.
Can Google + gather enough data to get them back in the social game? – Yes, with Google becoming famous on apps, eventually it can pick up but not compete against facebook and twitter.
Will Facebook release their own rival search engine or mobile phone? – this is something to consider but not on the foreseeable future.
Or will Apple’s Siri will spell ‘the end’ of search as we know it? – We are looking for Google’s version in Android.

Thanks for such topic, David.

By: Martin Matej

Martin Matej — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:37:26 +0000

I dont like the fact that Google+ is gaining momentum because google pushes it in organic search which is agains the laws…

By: David Jenyns

David Jenyns — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:12:14 +0000

Agreed! Google is definitely gaining momentum and it’s not going anywhere.

By: Terry Chadban

Terry Chadban — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:36:39 +0000

Hey Dave,
Had a chance to listen to both audios, thanks for the clarification re .com.au sites vs .com. I get your point re Google+ vs Facebook, but I just think sheer weight of numbers will tip the scales in favour of Google.

We will just have to wait and see, but should be an interesting year for social media as the two heavyweights punch it out!
Terry

By: David Jenyns

David Jenyns — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:51:39 +0000

Hi Terry,

Thanks for stopping by… I just recorded a short audio reply to your questions: http://audioboo.fm/boos/613281-reply-to-terry-chadban

Take a look and let me know what you think.

Cheers
Dave Jenyns

By: Terry Chadban

Terry Chadban — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:49:16 +0000

Hey Dave,
Downloaded the audio but haven’t had a chance to listen yet. I have one prediction for 2012, and a question regarding local SEO for you.

[1] My prediction is that Google+ will become bigger than Facebook, just like Facebook crushed Myspace, and for the same reason — they took note of the good parts, and the bad parts, and improved on the model.

For example, one major problem I have always had with Facebook was that my personal and business contacts were all lumped in together, and my friends got my business messages and vice versa. Google solved that with their circles concept, which is simple, but brilliant.

[2] Now my question — do you think that having a .com.au domain rather than a .com will get you any brownie points with Google Australia in 2012? Do you think that a .com.au site will rank above a .com site, given similar SEO and backlinks, etc?

My gut feeling is no, but recently a self-proclaimed SEO ‘Guru’ from Aus said otherewise, so would appreciate your thoughts!

And say hello to Grace for me, and look after her, she is a gem!
Terry

By: David Jenyns

David Jenyns — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:44:30 +0000

@Motorator Did you listen to the audio? Looks like we agree on most of the points you mentioned.

All except Siri… I think it’ll be closer than you think – Google is already working on their competitor and this technology will evolve quickly.

Finally I took a quick read of your article and it didn’t really look like you had taken some of the questions raised in this article – wondering if you linked to the correct article?

@Vitaly – Appreciate the kind words… Did you see the interview I did with Erik Qualman? The author of socianomics: http://www.podcastinterviews.com/erik-qualman/

Thanks guys.
Dave

By: Vitaly Makarkin

Vitaly Makarkin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:12:24 +0000

David, firstly I want to say a big thank you for sharing the information like that.

You’re the one of several persons which I’m following to.

Right now I’m trying to do some internet stuff in Russia. And I think stuff like social, going mobile, creating a multiple channels of traffic and not focus at just one is a great advices for every time.

A bit tired for today, but your podcast open my eyes to some of the cool things. I’m really love the things about the main purpose of creating your own community and focus them straight to your site. As well as I found the socialomics books very interesting and its share some thoughts and “what will be the next big thing” on the web guide to. follow.

By: Motorator

Motorator — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:00:57 +0000

1) There is no indication that either the new search alliance or any other online network will rival Google in search or even compromise its market share.
2) Google + is not a play at the social game, it is a play at the SEO game. It is just another way (like Google chrome) to gather a more complete psychographic portrait of internet users.
3) Facebook already, technically, is a search engine. It makes no sense for FB to release a search engine to produce all web results.
4) Siri is light years behind any other search engine. See latest abortion clinic debacle (Siri unable to locate abortion clinic while user is 3 feet away from abortion clinic.)

We actually took some of the questions you posed here and did our own article about them, speculating mainly about the role of latent Dirichlet allocation in Google’s 2012 strategy. With your permission, review it here, and maybe if you feel like it, you can even allow it posted in the comments section of your blog http://privateclientaccountant.com/2011/12/24/advanced-mlm-tips-for-seo-2/