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I read that Jason Calacanis thinks Google will have 90% market share in search within the next year. I don't know if it's going to be 90%, but I do think that Google's share of the search market (at least the english speaking search market) will not stop climbing.

I said this on Feb 4th, in the wake of the Microsoft bid for Yahoo!:

Let me start this post by saying that I don't think Microsoft will achieve its goal of obtaining some sort of balance and scale in the search market with an acquisition of Yahoo!  If you look at the share of search that Google has had over the past five years, it's an ever increasing line. I think that line will keep increasing, year after year, until Google has all of the search market (at least here in the US and the english speaking world). I don't think there's much that Yahoo! and/or Microsoft can do about it.

Jason and I disagree about a lot of things, but on this one, I think he's spot on.