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Makes sense to me. Google Flights is amazing, Google Stocks is better than my broker (and way easier/faster), Translate doesn't even have a decent competitor, a

Makes sense to me. Google Flights is amazing, Google Stocks is better than my broker (and way easier/faster), Translate doesn't even have a decent competitor, and Restaurants isn't perfect but just makes it easier to get to Google Maps. As a consumer, this is great. As a small business owner, I'm not very concerned about Google usurping pieces of my site into a widget. If the entirety of a business/site can be replaced with a free single-action widget, it's probably better for the consumer to do so. If I were a big business (Expedia, Yelp, etc) affected by this, I would be more concerned about improving my product than a competitor simply copying functionality.

eggsnbacon1 6y ago
Competitors have a hard time getting off the ground because the dominant player is promoting its own products. Classic monopoly. Competition won't be good if nobody uses them. Google maps might be a good example, MapQuest and Terraserver used to be better for navigation and satellite photos. Did they fail because of business reasons or self promotion? Hard to know, but Google pulled the same shit as MS got antitrust for. Bundling their own maps app pre-installed on their dominant mobile OS
- acituan 6y ago
  > ...promoting its own products. Classic monopoly How is promoting equivalent to classic monopoly? They are not removing competitors from search results. They are ranking based on relevance and apparently users are happy with their own widgets coming up on top.
  - dbuder 6y ago
    >>They are ranking based on relevance But they aren't! That's what we are talking about! They're putting themselves at the top.
  - eggsnbacon1 6y ago
    they're promoting their own products when they have over 80% of search eyeballs
speedgoose 6y ago
Deepl is better than Google translate for the few languages it supports.
- hu3 6y ago
  That might be true but bear in mind that Deepl supports 11 languages while Google Translate supports 108.
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eggsnbacon1 6y ago

Competitors have a hard time getting off the ground because the dominant player is promoting its own products. Classic monopoly. Competition won't be good if nobody uses them. Google maps might be a good example, MapQuest and Terraserver used to be better for navigation and satellite photos. Did they fail because of business reasons or self promotion? Hard to know, but Google pulled the same shit as MS got antitrust for. Bundling their own maps app pre-installed on their dominant mobile OS

acituan 6y ago
> ...promoting its own products. Classic monopoly How is promoting equivalent to classic monopoly? They are not removing competitors from search results. They are ranking based on relevance and apparently users are happy with their own widgets coming up on top.
- dbuder 6y ago
  >>They are ranking based on relevance But they aren't! That's what we are talking about! They're putting themselves at the top.
- eggsnbacon1 6y ago
  they're promoting their own products when they have over 80% of search eyeballs

speedgoose 6y ago

Deepl is better than Google translate for the few languages it supports.

hu3 6y ago
That might be true but bear in mind that Deepl supports 11 languages while Google Translate supports 108.
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