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It's funny. Recently I looked into what Google is doing (see at https://blog.miloslavhomer.cz/how-google-sees-your-site/ https://blog.miloslavhomer.cz/how-googl
by ArcHound 21d ago
It's funny. Recently I looked into what Google is doing (see at https://blog.miloslavhomer.cz/how-google-sees-your-site/ https://blog.miloslavhomer.cz/how-google-sees-your-site/).
It's a lot of work to get the data to build an index. Why would they give it to everyone for free?
- kolinko 21d agoBecuse they are a monopolist and we can require certain things from monopolists. Similarly, Bell Labs was kind of required to release transistor for anyone to license - it was a part of social contract that they were allowed to maintain their monopoly in exchange for releasing certain parts of technology. Alternatively, they could be split up and their indexing division made an independent company selling to anyone on a free market.
- ArcHound 21d agoI tend to agree - businesses should give back. But they can also keep some secrets. R&D has steep cost. Publishing it all gives your competitors an advantage.
- kolinko 21d agoIt has steep costs, but with monopolists they have other ways of extracting value from the inventions. Awesome book about the history if Bell Labs - virtually all semiconductor tech we use today was created there (transistors, ics, solar, lasers, fiber optics, telecom satellites…), and they had to license it to be allowed to maintain their monopoly status. https://www.amazon.pl/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation/dp/1594203288 https://www.amazon.pl/Idea-Factory-Great-American-Innovation...
- ArcHound 21d agoThanks for the recommendation, I do see your points. We should be treating monopolies differently.
- kolinko 21d agoThanks :) Another cool book about back and forth between monopolies and decentralisation in our space: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empires/dp/0307390993 https://www.amazon.com/Master-Switch-Rise-Information-Empire... It also has an audiobook.