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>What gives it roughly 80 percent of the online search traffic is first mover advantage. Back in the mid-'90s[...] Google was just a little bit better than the
by maverick_iceman 9y ago
>What gives it roughly 80 percent of the online search traffic is first mover advantage. Back in the mid-'90s[...] Google was just a little bit better than the others
This is bullshit. Yahoo! and Altavista were there before Google. And by calling Google's page rank based search algorithm "just a little better than others" the author reveals his own ignorance.
- gozur88 9y agoThis jumped out at me too. He's using some terms incorrectly in this article. In the very next paragraph he says >Back in the mid-'90s when Sergey Brin and Larry Page started the company, there were many other search tools jostling for position. ... which puts a lie to the sentence you quoted. And then the next point: >Second, what makes Google's search dominance profitable is network effects. Without a large internet to index, and a huge number of people looking for things online, even the best imaginable search would be worthless. That's not what people mean when they talk about network effects. The fact that huge numbers of people use Google doesn't make searching with Google more useful, and Microsoft can also index that "large internet" for Bing.