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Google wasn't the first search engine but they were the best marketing google = search. That's where we are with openai. Google search was a better product at
by ipaddr 2y ago
Google wasn't the first search engine but they were the best marketing google = search. That's where we are with openai. Google search was a better product at the time and chatGPT 3.5 was a breakthrough the public used. Fast forward and some will say Google isn't the best search engine anymore (kagi, duckduckgo, yandex offer different experiences) but people still think of google=search. Same with chatGPT. Claude may be better for coding or gemini better are searching or Deepseek cheaper but equal but chatGPT is a verb and will live on like Intel inside long after it's actual value has declined.
- williamcotton 2y agoGoogle was so much better than AltaVista that I just can’t buy that it was marketing that pushed them to the forefront of search.
- ipaddr 2y agoHaving a good product is marketing and parallels chatgpt
- Jweb_Guru 2y ago> Google wasn't the first search engine but they were the best marketing google = search Google's overwhelming victory in search had ~ nothing to do with marketing.
- ipaddr 2y agoEver heard the term to google something. Viral marketing is still marketing.
- kbelder 2y agoThat happened long after they completely dominated search. They succeeded because of quality, and because of how low quality all the other engines were. There was a time when Google was thought of as a respectable, high-quality, smart and nimble company. That has faded as the marketing grew.