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A new search engine now has to compete with global network effects, orders of magnitudes more data, Android, and a complex web of interconnected functionality.
by 300bps 4y ago
A new search engine now has to compete with global network effects, orders of magnitudes more data, Android, and a complex web of interconnected functionality.
Are you a pessimist in life? You’re focusing on only the negative aspects of starting a search engine today.
24 years after Google was formed we have orders of magnitude cheaper processing, orders of magnitude better AI, the ability to start small with cloud computing and work your way up from there. We have 24 years of search engine research to a large extent publicly available.
I really think all this “things would’ve been so much easier back then” are simply excuses as to why someone can’t do something today.
- ReflectedImage 4y agoWhat alternative search engine which isn't Bing (including DuckDuckGo) have you used recently? They do exist, have you heard of any of them?
- richardsocher 4y agoWe're growing a lot at you.com
- Jochim 4y agoHey Richard, great to hear you guys are doing well! A search engine with more personal control over rests is certainly attractive. My intention wasn't to dismiss the possibility of popular new search engines. Only to highlight that the environment is substantially more complex/challenging than in 1997.