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I don’t hate google but Google is not just search, it’s an ecosystem. OS, browser, email, search etc. Wrt to Search, Scale: Huge cost of infrastructure, data

I don’t hate google but Google is not just search, it’s an ecosystem. OS, browser, email, search etc. Wrt to Search, Scale: Huge cost of infrastructure, data is privatize. You could run a hobby scale pagerank but for searching web it would be a needle in a haystack. They have competition like yandex, nacy, baidu but are not for English web and not open source

jfoster 4y ago
In 2022, Android & Chrome are the most valuable pieces of Google. For instance, if Microsoft controlled them, they could just point the search functionality toward Bing, and most users mightn't even notice.