Google has dominated the search engine market for much of recent history and so far nothing on the horizon appears to be changing that.
But did you know that Google is the underdog in a number of markets?
Russia has Yandex
China has Baidu
Yahoo.jp is Japan’s largest
And Sezman has the Czech Republic.
In the two Eastern Europe cases they beat Google by supporting their local language better than Google. In Asia I couldn’t dig up any information indicating that anything similar had happened.
For as much as I love Google I do think it deserves some strong competition, un-fortunately I am unwilling to help with that as is likely the case with many Google loyals.