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Why do they depend on Google's mercy? What does Google provide them, that they must have and cannot be had elsewhere? To phrase differently and hint at what I
by sliverstorm 13y ago
Why do they depend on Google's mercy? What does Google provide them, that they must have and cannot be had elsewhere?
To phrase differently and hint at what I am suggesting- if Google provides something that companies cannot live without, what did companies do before there was Google?
- klrr 13y agoGoogle provide them users.
- steveklabnik 13y ago> Why do they depend on Google's mercy? http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_meme http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_m...
- nathancahill 13y agoGoogle has been around since the beginning.
- notdrunkatall 13y ago>what did companies do before there was Google? They didn't.
- sliverstorm 13y agoThey advertised. Smaller companies seem to be replacing the "advertising dept." with "our rank on Google dept.", in which case it's not exactly Google's fault they are dependent on Google, any more than when a Craigslist scraper is dependent on Craigslist.
- ksherlock 13y agoBefore the search that we know of today, there were directories (see http://dmoz.org http://dmoz.org for example) where you submitted your site. Originally it was a list, then a hierarchal list, then there so many entries they let you search their database, then they crawl the web to find other sites, then they search the _content_ of other sites, so you can see how it evolved. Web rings and pages of links to other sites were also common, basically what RG did, but more reciprocal.