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Going dark for a day is a pretty scary proposition for a company whose continued success is largely based on habitual usage. As a practical matter, Google sear
by ryandvm 15y ago
Going dark for a day is a pretty scary proposition for a company whose continued success is largely based on habitual usage.
As a practical matter, Google search is not really that much better than Bing. Making 600 million people use your competitor's equally capable product for a day would be pure insanity. Especially for such speculative gain.
I can't believe people think Google is dumb enough to try a blackout.
- jrgifford 15y agoLook at it this way. Either they do a blackout and (probably) save their entire company, or don't and lose everything. While I'm not a businessman, I'd rather take the chance of making everyone use Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo/Whatever for a day rather than risk losing my entire companies main product(s).