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A reply to those in this thread saying that Google should/will take care of this: Imagine you had a position in a huge market that was as close to unassailable
by alangibson 5y ago
A reply to those in this thread saying that Google should/will take care of this:
Imagine you had a position in a huge market that was as close to unassailable as there has ever been. Imagine also that you have a controlling position over the mechanisms that allow people to participate in that market.
Now try to make a case against optimizing for squeezing every last cent out at the cost of the user experience.
In 10 years we will regard Google the way we regard cable companies today. Maybe even worse since we need to be able to search for answers more than we ever needed cable TV.
- greenyoda 5y agoThe good news is that competition is much easier in the search market than in the cable TV market (since it's hard to run a new cable into everyone's house). If comparatively tiny operations like DuckDuckGo or Brave can launch decent search engines, I think there's hope of reducing Google's dominant position in the market.