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Originally Posted by Relentless
Yup, impossible to compete with Microsoft back when they controlled so much of the home computing market that they were sued for antitrust.
Oh wait, apple and Samsung wrecked much of that flawed assumption....
What goes up, must come down.
Google is making some massive mistakes lately. One company won't replace them but they have gotten into too many markets and made too many enemies. Search censorship, content piracy, privacy issues, pissing off book publishers, angering data carriers... I'd be very unwilling to buy their stock as a long term play and there is a lot of room for competitors.
Will boodigo own half the market? Unlikely. Could it take 5% of the market? Absolutely. What's 5% of Search worth in 2014?
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SE business is a very different story. You can not generate relevant SERP's without having a trusted ranking mechanism. Google uses their spy tools like Chrome and Google Analytics to determine the site popularity/rating. All those other methods that analyze backlinks don't work anymore because they can be easily tricked by SE spammers. So if you don't have enough resources to harvest user activity info
directly from their personal computers (Chrome) and websites (Google Analytics), you can't make a good SE which will make any competition to Google
