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> they're nailing an underserved market There's a good reason the market is underserved. If it were wildly profitable to operate in that space, you'd see many
by sheetjs 12y ago
> they're nailing an underserved market
There's a good reason the market is underserved. If it were wildly profitable to operate in that space, you'd see many more players.
- dcpdx 12y agoI'm glad nobody told Larry or Sergey that before they started Google.
- untog 12y agoSearch engines had a lot of competition?
- sheetjs 12y agoSometimes it helps to do a little research before trying to make a clever retort. Wikipedia has decent coverage of search engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_search_engines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_search_engines Go.com, Lycos, AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo!, Dogpile, Ask.com, Yandex and many other search engines existed before Google entered. Most were wildly profitable.
- argonaut 12y agoSometimes it helps to read the articles you link to. None of them show that "Most were wildly profitable." In fact, those articles mention that search engines before google struggled to make money.