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wo1f-cola t1_j9w4x0v wrote

Google’s dominance in search started a long time ago with Page Rank. They basically crawled the web and promoted web pages that were linked more in other pages.

That was 20+ years ago. Now most Google services use a knowledge graph to respond to queries. Google doesn’t want to get better at suggesting web pages to users. They want to answer queries directly. They want to know EVERYTHING, and they’re doing a fantastic job of that.

I don’t think any company can disrupt Google and their ambitions. They’ve been collecting data for too long, from too many sources for anyone to catch up. They didn’t just luck their way into that situation. They got where they are by being patient and planing and developing technologies for the future.

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Arlo1515 OP t1_j9zcyx2 wrote

Over the last 3 years they have been losing market share and Microsoft gaining

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wo1f-cola t1_j9zk56b wrote

Source?

Google may have dropped from 88% to 84% on desktops, and most of that was gained by Bing, but Bing hasn’t cracked 1% of the much bigger pie that is mobile.

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hertzwinapu t1_j9we69j wrote

Google search is trash and has been for a decade. Satya overplayed his hand with his crappy chatbot but anything that forces Google to change even a little bit is a huge win for the internet.

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