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It could end up like Search did, at first you had Lycos, AskJeeves, Altavista etc. and then Google became absolutely dominant. They want to be the Google in th
by schnitzelstoat 1y ago
It could end up like Search did, at first you had Lycos, AskJeeves, Altavista etc. and then Google became absolutely dominant.
They want to be the Google in this scenario.
- skeeter2020 1y agoThen they're doing it backwards. Google first built a far superior product, then pursued all the tricks to maintain their monopoly. OpenAI at best has the illusion of a superior product, and even that is a stretch.
- camdenreslink 1y agoGoogle was by far the best product. Maybe an LLM provider will emerge in that way, but it seems they are all very similar in capability right now.
- wyre 1y agoI don't believe google won the search engine wars because they had the best product, while it may be true, the won because the of the tools they provided to their users. Email, cloud storage, docs/sheets/drive, Chrome, etc
- ncls 1y agoThey were already pretty dominant in search by the time they released most if not all of those. They got into that position by being the better search engine - better results and nicer to use (clean design, faster loading times).
- camdenreslink 1y agoThey had already won the search engine wars well before any of those additional products existed.