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There are still other search engines and were many more prior to "google" becoming a verb. They won over those because their search results were faster/better.
by beezle 6y ago
There are still other search engines and were many more prior to "google" becoming a verb. They won over those because their search results were faster/better. Yet there is no barrier to entry in websearch. As seen with DDG, some people value privacy higher so they have a niche.
I think the real reason why nobody really tries to compete is not upfront money or techinical issues, but that nobody can think of a way to monetize successfully while attractively differentiating themselves from google search.
- ColinHayhurst 6y agoThere are only 9 real (crawler) search engines: Google, Bing, Yandex, Mojeek, Gigablast in English Language plus Baidu, Sogou, Naver (South Korea), Seznam(.cz) https://twitter.com/i/lists/1316046723928805376/members https://twitter.com/i/lists/1316046723928805376/members All other are search services (sometimes called metasearch) and most of those are syndication partners for Bing https://www.searchenginemap.com/ https://www.searchenginemap.com/