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I very much feel like Google today is going through what Meta went through for the last 5 years, and what MSFT went through in the early 2010s. Everyone absolut
by SilverBirch 4y ago
I very much feel like Google today is going through what Meta went through for the last 5 years, and what MSFT went through in the early 2010s. Everyone absolutely insisting the company was dying and that the end was nigh.... whilst the company absolutely continued to crush it. Yes yes innovators dilemma, sure. Do you think maybe Google also know about the innovators dilemma? Do you think maybe the fact that they basically invented big chunks of the underlying tech for this indicates that they're not going to just sit on their hands?
Even if Bing successfully sticks a ChatGPT into it's search engine to give you a first good guess before you have to look at the actual search results... do you know what will happen? Google will do the same, and everyone will keep using Google. Why? Because if the ChatGPT answer is wrong, no one wants to pay the price of using Bing. Google has an enormous incumbency advantage. Search is going nowhere.
- bob_theslob646 4y ago>Search is going nowhere. The entire model of it is shifting. Prior to chatgpt, it was ad supported, now that it is 100% in flux in my opinion.
- SilverBirch 4y agoAgain, going back to the comparison, everyone is still using Windows, every is still using Facebook. They're no longer the new sexy innovative thing, but they're both enormous and massively useful as leverage to push into other markets. Microsoft Azure exists entirely as a result of Microsoft's leverage that they established with Windows.