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And good luck if you want to try and resolve a problem. There is no customer service to speak of. I really wish there was a competitor to Google. They're one o

And good luck if you want to try and resolve a problem. There is no customer service to speak of. I really wish there was a competitor to Google. They're one of the most opaque organizations around as far as their primary revenue stream - AdSense - is concerned.

pas 7y ago
Barriers to entry (network effects) :/
- nl 7y ago
  There's no obvious network effect in search. Google does have brand and distribution though.
  - shantly 7y ago
    On targeted advertising the barrier is that you must already have a significant fraction of the personal data Google has before you can start to compete.
  - pas 7y ago
    Not in search, in ads. The ad network itself. Many many many sites integrated Google Ads (AdWords, AdSense, Adwhatever). Plus the sheer volume and reach that Google has. (It pays millions - if not billions summed up for every little channel they pay for - every year to be the de facto "internet" for many users, many kinds of devices.) It's basically unimaginably hard to compete with this for newcomers. Sure, they can carve out a niche, and so on, but that's just that.