Engineering News

Looks like the author of this article had his arm twisted and did a follow-up here.

Even though it's impossible to see into the future, I think saying something as concise as "Google will be dead in 5 years" comes off as a bit ignorant. He mentions that the market is moving into mobile devices, but I hardly see how that's going to be a nail in Google's coffin. Google has their own line of phones, a new notebook that's supposed to revolutionize how micro computing is supposed to be done, and a crack team of software engineers constantly working on web searching algorithms.

To say the clock is ticking on such a power house in the web-based market feels like I'm listening to another doomsday fanatic telling me the Mayans predicted that a black hole will be flipping the Earth off it's axis in 2012...