Interesting read about possibly looming troubles for Google. I will say that in the past I used Google to look for products, but most of the items I found that way were from shaky looking distributors, or links to Amazon, where I found they had a very competitive price.

Perception is reality, my personal perception is that Amazon is a trustworthy enough for me to buy from them. Over the last few months I’ve simply quit Googling for products and checked Amazon first, and only using Google if I felt that Amazon didn’t offer the product or the price was more than I wanted to pay.

Google’s stocks have taken a dive recently. It was a rocky 2014 but the last month has seen a nose dive in stock trading value:

That’s not all. As the Mercury News (headquartered in Silicon Valley) reported last month, FireFox has dropped Google as it’s default search engine:
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_26971412/firefox-drops-google-yahoo-default-search-engine

Here is a link to an opinion piece on LinkedIn that discusses this further:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/googles-very-rough-transition-nicholas