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Even suggesting you want to tackle Google's lead in search or ads as a startup will get you laughed out of the room. The amount of time, effort, and funding ne
by Firehawke 6y ago
Even suggesting you want to tackle Google's lead in search or ads as a startup will get you laughed out of the room.
The amount of time, effort, and funding needed is well beyond what any investor wants to even consider.
- lumost 6y agoThere are search competitors in non-US markets. The lack of funding begs the question of whether Google's search lead is simply due to no one trying to compete within the last 10 years. DDG doesn't really qualify here as they aggregate google/bing search results.
- simonh 6y agoHow about Bing? Yes I know, they're easy to forget about, but....
- lumost 6y agoBing started 15+ years ago as a feature for feature clone of Google. Historically they've simply crawled Google results and replicated whatever Google returns. It could be a data point that Google has made the perfect search system as of 15 years ago - or just a footnote of the balmer era of Microsoft like Windows phone.
- solidasparagus 6y agoDDDG has raised $13 million. Neeva has raised $37.5 million. Hulbee has raised $9 million.