Social Search To Gain 70% of Search by 2013 + Google Becoming Irrelevant | Internet Marketing Strategy 2.0 | Scoop.it

Marty Smith: "Not sure I would go anywhere near this far (Google being irrelevant) since Google isn't sitting still. CEO of  uber agency WPP just mentioned his company increased their Google spend 17% while flattening out Facebook a week ago on @Squakbox. That said, I do see incursion being made by mobile search, video and social search. The Google castle is in need of defending." 

From the original article: "Google’s search marketing services may be becoming irrelevant due to the rise of social search.

 

That’s in addition to a failure to recognize that Google+ cannot be the sole solution to social search with an always increasing number of web properties.

 

Info-Tech Research Group expects that Google, which held 90% of the search market in 2010, will only hold 30% in 2013, due to the rising impact of social search".

 

Read More: http://www.techvibes.com/blog/google-becoming-irrelevant-social-search-to-own-70-of-searching-by-2013-2012-05-25


Via Antonino Militello, Martin (Marty) Smith