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Everyone wants to be the next search engine but no one seems to be able to do it, even for a niche. Microsoft has the 500M to market it, and the who knows how
by quizbiz 17y ago
Everyone wants to be the next search engine but no one seems to be able to do it, even for a niche.
Microsoft has the 500M to market it, and the who knows how many billions to build, and they already having paying advertisers. They know how to contact companies with big ad budgets... Not many other tech firms have all that in place, I don't think a startup could handle it. But then again, Google did it as a start up.
- encoderer 17y agoSearch wasn't even a business when Google blossomed in the late 90s. Altavista was a halo product for Digital. Yahoo used it to drive traffic to its services that made money. Etc. Etc. Etc. Every search engine then had a "Try this search on [Yahoo], [AltaVista], [Excite], [etc], [etc]" snippet at the bottom of each results page. GoTo changed everything with text ads and Google was the first company to turn search into big business. In other words, I agree with your larger point :)