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These types of moves really remind me of what caused Microsoft to get the ire of regulators in the 90s. Doesn't this seem pretty anti-competitive if it can be p
by xfour 6y ago
These types of moves really remind me of what caused Microsoft to get the ire of regulators in the 90s. Doesn't this seem pretty anti-competitive if it can be proved that the results from other companies are better, but youtube results are chosen instead. Of course the definition of "Better" is subjective, so there's a huge amount of wiggle room.
It's interesting that the "brand new" search engine seems like a dead industry. All of the newer competitors aren't starting from scratch and are just aggregating together results in new ways or focusing on privacy. Is it really that impossible to bring into existence a new search engine. For the vast majority of queries Google seems to only return major brands anyway.
- slowmovintarget 6y agoThe engine isn't the problem. The indices are. Google has massive amounts of data to index over, and they've been collecting it in useful form for longer than anyone else still in the game.
- xfour 6y agoGood point, the data is the key. There's of course the common crawl data now, doing some sort of that plus deltas of "current" likely could be a starting point. But also turning that into usable indices that can be returned in milliseconds is an art I'm sure. My main point still stands though. How is there not anyone willing to take another shot at competing here, the world's love affair with Google is no doubt over. DuckDuckGo is relatively popular even though it doesn't seem to offer anything truly original in the search space. A truly new way to search that helps fight the monopolistic search behavior would be very useful. It feels like something Mozilla foundation would be into if they didn't receive so much funding from Google.
- rydre 6y ago> How is there not anyone willing to take another shot at competing here Cliqz did and they lost.
- nojito 6y agoBing image search and video search are way more accurate than Google for me. Google still reigns supreme in the text search department though.
- Nasrudith 6y agoHow relevant is the stale data however? Google started expiring old advertising data not because of any PR concerns but because it was useless to them even with cheap storage. Search data isn't neccessarily user data but what good do the particulars of search data for long defunct domain names provide them? The only thing relevant now are any current archives to search.