The prediction is essentially timeless: “no competitor will ever be able to catch up” to Google’s vertically integrated infrastructure and moat in search and related services. That makes it impossible to definitively mark as right or wrong as of 30 Nov 2025, since “ever” extends indefinitely into the future.

What we can say so far:

• Google still holds a dominant share of global search (roughly 90% on desktop/mobile combined in recent years), far ahead of Bing and others, indicating its infrastructure and ecosystem advantages remain very strong.
• Microsoft’s integration of OpenAI models into Bing and the rise of AI assistants (e.g., ChatGPT, other LLM-based tools) have created new kinds of competition, but these have not displaced Google’s core search dominance or obviously “matched” its full stack of infrastructure, data, ad network, and distribution.

However, because the claim is that no one will ever catch up, we cannot, even in 2025, conclusively declare the statement correct or incorrect. We can only note that, to date, the observable evidence is consistent with the prediction, but does not settle it forever; therefore the appropriate status is inconclusive (too early).