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>you cannot acquire a corpus of decades of historical searches and click data nor can you employ the thousands of human raters No, but as soon as Google starts
by natoliniak 9y ago
>you cannot acquire a corpus of decades of historical searches and click data nor can you employ the thousands of human raters
No, but as soon as Google starts abusing their monopoly status by turning into something reminiscent of Alta Vista, a new search engine will sprout up.
Google itself grew like wildfire in the late 90s not only because it offered superior search results, but because of the massive global reach it had, thanks to net neutrality! If the net wasn't neutral back then, AOL search would still rule the net.
- zepto 9y agoHow will this new search engine 'spring up' if nobody can build a better search engine because the resources are not available? You are right that net neutrality enabled Google's growth, but the barriers to a Google competitor are different now, and far more difficult to overcome than what Google faced. Google is not trusted, but people use it because there is no alternative and the barriers to an alternative being built are monumental. https://www.cnet.com/news/people-trust-nsa-more-than-google-survey-says/ https://www.cnet.com/news/people-trust-nsa-more-than-google-...
- rocqua 9y agoGoogle's only non-technical reputation in the search engine department is reputation. Should google fall, Bing would easily be replace google. The biggest challenge in replacing google would be getting the advertisers. Especially because at the start, your low userbase makes targeted adds much harder to pull off.
- natoliniak 9y agoRight now, there is no need for an alternative search engine because Google fully satisfies that market (it is fast accurate and clean). However, once Google gets so comfortable in their position as AOL/Altavista/Myspace once did, and turns into a bloated adware machine, any alternative but functioning search engine will take over, even one that pales in comparison to what google can do today. Net neutrality is the Internet's "invisible hand" that can immediately slap google into shape if they start offering degrading product quality.
- zepto 9y agoSorry - Google's profitability is so high that if what you say was true, there would be huge incentive for someone to simply compete on price. The fact that hasn't happened proves you are wrong.