Good article, and I agree with your primary thesis that Google isn’t going away anytime soon.

I think though, that our concept of search will morph as more advanced methods for analyzing, slicing and dicing, and consolidating information increase. We’ll expect some level of analysis from our searches, and we will expect the search engines to be cognizant of the context from which we make our searches.

We will also increasingly demand more comprehensive search, not just what’s located within the search engine. For example, I’ll want my search to include the enterprise and perhaps subscription-based sources. This is beyond the scope of google (and the others), and the search engines that embrace this will become the long-term leaders of search.

IMHO.

Larry.