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The cost of entry in the search market just went way, way up due to Google implementing neural nets extensively in its search algorithms (Deep Mind whatever.) N
by Nomentatus 10y ago
The cost of entry in the search market just went way, way up due to Google implementing neural nets extensively in its search algorithms (Deep Mind whatever.) No question about that. Someone else might find a way to do that better, however; if so they could now take the market away. (But that doesn't mean I think that's likely.)
- tyingq 10y agoThe years of collected data on personalizing search results, what different demographics expect, etc...Is a big barrier as well. I believe they are able, for example, to know I want "Apache" the software organization even if I've never typed it before, because they've seen my previous software related searches. And...Injected some behavior based on searches by other people like me. Someone else is getting much different results for the same term...Again, even if it's for the first time. When I hear people say they don't like duckduckgo's results for a search term, it seems to usually trace back to "no tracking equals no personalization".
- Nomentatus 10y agoI agree with all of that. I think it's all well known. Which is why I said I'm not saying that someone overtaking Google is likely - just more possible now.