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Being just a little fish in a massive pond I am never likely to have the problem with a second search box, however if I was a big fish, I would not be happy at all with possibly paying to get the visitor in the first place to then loose them to another poor sucker who also had to pay for that visitor who would possibly click on yet another ad and so on and so on.

However, I have done very well in deed from AdWords and would not be able to afford to run without them.

I wonder how long Google will rule the waves!!!

In regards to the second search box and asking for peoples opinion, It really doesnt matter what we think. Google has a Global Monopoly when it comes to net searching. So if someone doesnt like it? too bad. Adapt, you have no choice.

I didn't read all of the comments, but I have my opinion anyway.

I first read that in NY Times and I was kind of shocked. My first thought is Google again is trying to monopolise the market. I'm not interested in advertising with Google or anyway and never would be.

But for me, this is a move of Google to ensure it gets the full control over advertising. Because, eliminating all the aditional clicks that a user makes, it prevents the user of noticing or clicking on ads provided by other sources. It actually decrease the choice, although it looks like it's acting in favor of the consummers. It could really be of some help, if you're looking for something in particular, but let's face it, when one look for something, he/she won't need Google. Or maybe he/she will. Who knows. Oh, whatever, I'm so sick of all this Google mania. It's high time to see someone entering the competition.

It does'nt sound very fair would have been good too see an example

It's my site.  It's there for me to advertise MY wares and not anyone else's wares. SIMPLE AS THAT. 

If GARGOYLE.com wants to come in and claim they can slam my competitors' ads on my site, well I have little choice but to take down my site! I mean why should I pay good money for billboard-realestate for my competition?

This is exactly how big monopolies bleed the last drop out of a market they once served thereby killing their own golden goose. 

Geesshhh. 

The big goog trumpets that they only have the end user in mind yet the vast majority of what they do is find new and innovative ways of generating revenue. They are a for profit company period. Because of this they will ultimately err on the side of bigger profits, website owners be damned.

Matt cutts fairly recent questioning of should google display results from a site even if they have the nofollow or noindex flags flying only proves they don't care what the site owners have to say. If it's on the web they think they have the duty to display it. They view it as thier decision not the site owners.

As a retail website owner I don't want competitors ads showing up right along side my products that's why I don't have adsense or any other advertising there. Does google care - NO. They feel like they're loosing revenue from sites, like mine, that don't display ads so they came up with a way to solve that. From a business point of view it's absolutely brilliant. It cuts out paying the site owner for the clicks while they still get paid. Truely brilliant. The end result of this type of search will be the death of individual sites displaying adsense. Again improving the bottom line for google.

Google cares about 2 things keeping users coming back and improving it's bottom line. Unfortunately #1 only matters anymore because it leads to #2. 

The moral of the story is if you really dislike what google is doing quit using them. Delete your gmail account, blogger blog, orkut profile, get rid of the adsense on your site, delete your google base feed, remove the analytics code, don't use google - checkout, maps, docs, earth, sketch up, calender or alerts, stay off of youtube and quit doing searches with them. (surprising how much they've infiltrated your life huh?)

They don't care what you & I as site owners want; get used to it cuz it's only gonna get worse.

Well google are trying to keep the customer on their search engine. Yes you may lose customers to another ad ot site but if theu have made up their mind to leave you'v lost them already.

Maybe you should link the articles to an example.

Just an idea.

Dear readers,

I don't know if this is already active or possible at this moment, but there should be a code that Google wold provide to retailers to place on their sites. If placed, this code would disable the search feature.

Just like there are codes to prevent robots from crawling a website.

Kind regards,

José

Obviously no retailer wants to lose traiffic and if that traffic is being lost to a competitor that would be doubly troubling. 

It is important to note that Google is in the search business and, from their point of view anything that gives a client a better search result is a benefit to Google.  By that same token, if they don't respect the business needs of their adsense clients, while also relying on those clients to generate income they are clearly using two differnet sets of rules - one for Google, the other for everyone else.

It would be foolish of Google not to understand that, while that are king of the hill today there are other companies who would gladly ursurp that position given the opportunity to do so.  In mistreating or misunderstanding their client base Google could open the door for competitors to sweep in and quickly knock them off the peak. 

If I am worried that a potential customer will go to an ad right next to my site, then I would need to change/edit/market my brand/message better/stronger/quicker/smarter - this is an evolution that sooner or later will happen

See, if I am Best Buy and I will loose a customer because they might click on an ad to the right, then the question is what Best Buy need to do to retain people's attention?

Come on! this is what internet marketing is all about! Afraid? Bring it on!

If companies like Amazon paid to be listed on Google in the first place then I would agree with them but Google is in essence providing them a free service so if they dont like the adds appearing then Google should remove the sites totally then see how they complain. Google does need to pay for the service it is offering Amazon and co. By the way I hate Google but here I must agree with them.

Competition is an INTEGRAL part of FREE ENTERPRISE...retailers "get a life." Take some of your disgusting embarrassingly high profits and purchase more and bigger advert space and YOUR add will "outshine" them all......

I think it's great! For all too long, the web barons with deep pockets have been able to manipulate the rankings. It's about time someone else was given the chance to market their products as well!!

They are doing nothing illegial here, in fact they are doing you a favor by allowing people to find what they are looking for and then buy it from you.  If you don't like it, ask for your site to be removed from Google and see how well your business survives then.

I pay for my advertising with google but I don't think that its fair that when a new customer or returning customer visits my site that my competitors are listed for them to see... especially if they had never heard of them before. Why should my advertising dollars be spent on helping my competitors advertise within my own site?

Greed on both parts... Google and the advertisers.  I for one have limited all of my ppc to Google searches only.  I am sure that is why my clicks are down, but I got sick of junk sites and domain squatters being paid with my advertising dollar.  Google BUGS ME! 

But, they won't get away with it if the advertisers didn't go along with it.

Its an all around bad deal.

The new search box IS unfair for a retailer who has put out quality content, made thier page relevent, usable and clean. Also if the user is turning out products made in the USA that are of highest quality (such as our flies) this means that before a potential customer has a chance to read through your quality statements and other points of products, they will divert for the lowest price.... but also lower quality within that first 4-6 seconds.

It unconsciously makes the association of the landing site, to the competitor links in the second window. The second rate sites are using the quality sites content to grab their customers.

If a site wants the adwords campaigns on their site, they can join the google affiliate program and put them there. This may make google a fortune, because now they are getting the income from PPC without paying webmasters their share to put the ads out.

It stinks of bad business all around

How can it be unfair?  If I search for something I want a choice and how many times it would be convenient to take a peek at a website just to see if it matches what I'm looking for.  If it does I stay and look further.  If not I move on with my search.  Even better if I don't have to leave Google only to have to start again.

Anyway what do price comparison websites do?  Does anyone complain about being side by side with competitors there?  I doubt it but if there is something to complain about, perhaps it has more to do with the business shortcomings than anything Google might do.  After all, Google is a search engine and it works for people who search, not people who want to corner the market and bypass the competition.

The Site Search facility is long overdue and an excellent addition to the Google brand.  Well done Google.

Well, this did not come as good news, although nothing that Google has done lately is for the smaller business owners.

Google has become the online Walmart, and people are beginning to see that while it may have good intentions for the shoppers, the people who advertise on Google, who spend quality SEO time and money trying to be in some type of competition with their competitors.

Someone needs to rise up from the ashes and become the next hottest thing. The Big G has held that position long enough.

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I wouldn't mind having the additional search but I sure reject the idea of having paid advertising showing up alongside.  This is enough to make one drop the use of Google AdWords.  Why subsidize a service that just results in the possibility of losing a prospect right after i paid to get them.

I never trusted google's click count (no accountability or verification) so we stay out of it.