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An interesting hot take I read a while back (that I can't find) was that Google's strategy is generally "compete with every company on every product in order to
by bmmayer1 6y ago
An interesting hot take I read a while back (that I can't find) was that Google's strategy is generally "compete with every company on every product in order to build a moat, so that no one can touch search, which is the actual castle." And if you think about it makes a lot of sense -- Google competes with almost every other tech company on something, but no one competes with Google on search. The exception, perhaps, is voice search where Alexa / Siri are truly competitive.
- scarmig 6y agoAmazon has been aggressively eating into Google's search advertising market share, which is actually the biggest threat to Google's model today (aside from general obsolescence as activity drifts away from the open web).
- thekyle 6y agoMicrosoft Bing competes with Google Search.
- reidjs 6y agoI have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble
- tmk1108 6y agoI'm very far away from that bubble and I have yet to meet anyone who uses Bing either. And I know several people who still use Hotmail/Yahoo.
- vulcan01 6y agoI use Bing... sometimes. They literally give you rewards points (that can be redeemed for Microsoft/Xbox gift cards) for searching. Pretty funny, the lengths they go to get you to use Bing... https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/ https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/
- thekyle 6y agoSeems like Yahoo just uses the Bing API these days. > Yahoo! Search is a rebadged version of the Bing search engine owned by Yahoo!, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search
- sellyme 6y agoGiven that they put it in the same category as Hotmail, I assume that they mean Yahoo Mail, not the search engine.
- thekyle 6y agoI see people recommending DuckDuckGo a lot here which is basically just Bing without personalized results.
- ObsoleteNerd 6y agoI use a mix of Bing and DDG, about 50/50. I also know multiple people who use Bing, mostly people not in tech as it’s just “there” if you use Windows.
- vernie 6y agoBing is unmatched when it comes to searching for porn videos.
- reaperducer 6y agoI have yet to meet someone that uses bing, but maybe that’s just because I’m in the Silicon Valley bubble You might be surprised what Joe Average uses. I run into people who not only still use MapQuest, but use it as a verb.
- tambeb 6y agoMapQuest directions printed out at home before the trip?
- hajimemash 6y agoYeah, but ppl were using Mapquest for years before Gmaps came out. People were using Google before Bing came out.
- erklik 6y agoInterestingly. There's bound to be more people using Bing in the Silicon Valley bubble than outside it. This is because duckduckgo, the famed privacy focused search engine uses Bing as the back end.
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- Lammy 6y agoAnd this seems to be about providing Google-only search result content that no competitor could equal since it's literally built on google's tech, RE: "Your story can then be surfaced in relevant Google Search results and Discover."
- fluidcruft 6y agohttps://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-android/ https://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-a...
- bmmayer1 6y agoThat is exactly the article I was thinking of! Gotta love the internet.