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>the entry bar for the search engine market is not high You just need millions of computers, millions of petabytes of net traffic and a lot of time to have the
by mahouse 11y ago
>the entry bar for the search engine market is not high
You just need millions of computers, millions of petabytes of net traffic and a lot of time to have the same index as Google. Easy.
For example, look at how useless Bing is. And that's Microsoft!
- kzhahou 11y agoI bet if you forced yourself to use Bing, and weren't turned off by its look and feel, you'd find it to be an equal replacement. In fact, I don't have to bet: both companies have detailed metrics that consistently show them within a few percent of each other on precision, recall, etc.
- bigiain 11y agoI suspect this in not only true, but a highly likely factor in whatever "replaces" both Google and Bing. Prediction: some near-future Snowden document release will catapult DuckDuckGo or some other privacy-oriented search alternative into the limelight in a hockeystick curve growth kind of way. Maybe something that proves the NSA is firehose sharing de-anonymised Google/Bing search data with HealthCare Companies or the Insurance Industry or the IRS, and that there's widespread punitive action going on based on simplistic or poorly thought out responses to people's search history (people being denied health insurance because they did a few too many Google searches when their mother was diagnosed with cancer, or car insurance rates being raised across the board for people who search wine labels online...) All of a sudden someone who's "good enough" at search, but has TOR hidden service endpoints and nothing associated with them that comes under Five Eyes legal jurisdictions is going to look worthwhile switching to.
- icebraining 11y agoI'm willing to bet that no significant (say, 10%) portion of the Google/Bing userbase will switch to an alternative engine in the next five years, regardless of whatever documents may be released. If some revelation like that were to happen, people would be outraged, they'd demand regulation, and meanwhile they'd continue to use Google/Bing; maybe some would switch to Incognito windows, but that's about it, in my opinion.
- V-2 11y agoAs far as search results accuracy (and usefulness) go, Bing vs. Google in the US is a whole different story than Bing vs. Google elsewhere.
- thaumaturgy 11y agoI don't think you do. One of Google's faults is that it emphasizes quantity over quality; niche search engines could index a few tens of millions of pages and provide the majority of search functionality that people are looking for.
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- fenesiistvan 11y ago> You just need millions of computers, millions of petabytes What if you build it like a distributed network focusing on anonymity / less centralization / less advertisement. Of course, it will be a completely different business then google, but this kind of search competition could quickly destroy google business. Of course, crawling, indexing and distributing billions of URL's is not an easy job, I don't say that it can be done by someone over the weekend, but you don't have to be Microsoft at all to be able to do it. Big companies like Google has a big inertia. Google built a complete industry (the advertising) over their centralized search system, which is very hard to be changed. This is why they are very vulnerable.
- snemvalts 11y ago(Relative) anonymity is already done, avg users couldn't care less about the implementation & less advertisement could turn out to be something like Ello. Attempting to compete with Google is akin to creating a new, marginally better implementation of a really widespread standard and attempting to market it: nobody is going to use it.
- popee 11y ago> You just need millions of computers But far less if you don't personalize everything?