Top Google Predictions for 2004
Written by Anita Campbell
Published January 04, 2004

Over at WebProWorld the search-engine-optimizer types are offering an interesting set of predictions about Google in 2004.

Some of the predictions sound prescient:

  • Getting visibility in Google News will become a PR priority.

  • Google News will top the Nielsen NetRatings and Media Metrix scores as one of the top ten brands in its category.

  • There will be a big push to get Google onto cell phones and PDAs.

  • ...Google [will be] killing the Yellow Pages once their localized search is in full effect.

  • Froogle will become more integrated into the search results where the search phrase is a specific brand name, but even this will become geo-targeted.

  • The butler (Jeeves) will be at your door more.

  • ZEAL will give DMOZ a run. Already several are reporting that MSN rankings moved up dramatically after listing with ZEAL.

    • Another set of predictions are tongue-in-cheek — fiction in good fun:

  • Google's IPO fizzles after the new non-relevant search results cause searchers to stop using them entirely. When they announce they've gone back to the pre-Florida algorithm, they gain back their die-hard fans. But it seems like too little, too late for most of the remaining public.

  • Google Print's successful launch will lead to a wave of keyword-stuffing in books, and the most common name for Chapter One of romance novels will be 'breast, breasts | Chapter One Breasts'.

  • Google's ranking method will be revealed to involve a large warehouse where monkeys throw darts at a massive internet network map.

    • Anita Campbell is the Editor of the award-winning Small Business Trends (www.smallbiztrends.com) website and host of her own talk radio program, Small Business Trends Radio, on the WSRadio.com Internet network.
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    Published: January 04, 2004
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    Filed Under: Sci/Tech: Internet, Sci/Tech: Software
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