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>If anything, you win by being a good second. More specifically, winning often means being last. Case in point: Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo!, Infoseek... then Goog
by ChiMan 2mo ago
>If anything, you win by being a good second.
More specifically, winning often means being last. Case in point: Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo!, Infoseek... then Google. Let others rush around doing your prototyping.
- kalb_almas 2mo agoGoogle didn't win because it was last. It was last because it won!
- Seattle3503 2mo agoIt's always in the last place you look.
- Towaway69 2mo agoYou mean, Google lasts because it won one.
- ChiMan 2mo agoOnly partly true. Look more carefully. Page and Brin devised their product as a response to other search engines—-which they couldn’t have done by rushing into search engines. For them, given their ages, their timing was probably happy accident. Still, why not imitate successful accident?
- kreyenborgi 2mo agoXerox to Apple