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But to build a competitive search engine you need massive engineering, network and hardware resources; or put simply you need a lot of money. To fund that very
by Joeri 6y ago
But to build a competitive search engine you need massive engineering, network and hardware resources; or put simply you need a lot of money. To fund that very expensive to operate but necessarily free search product you need lots of ad revenue, for which you need advertisers, which only pay for ads on the dominant search engine.
Maybe it is a lot easier for google to stay on top than for others to get to that level? And is the market really open when competitors face a sky-high barrier to entry?
- julienb_sea 6y agoI mean, there have been some very well funded attempts to compete with Google. Bing is the main one I am referring to. Bing has the technical chops to theoretically compete with Google but their product offering as a whole is not as good, and people prefer the Google option. It is possible to try and compete with Google, and more will try, but it will be very difficult to create a more complete overall package.