[justusw]

In hindsight, the victor claiming they won because they were better than Bing et. al is exactly what I would say as well if I rigged the game.

We are so commonly assuming that Google has the secret juice that makes search work, and we are so deep in that we can’t trace our steps back and see if this statement still holds in 2023 or not!

Same goes for companies perpetuating the myth that they only hire mega-brained geniuses. That is far from the truth! Most exceptional companies are bound to regress to the mean at some point :)

As a consumer, having my freedom of choice so severely limited appears decisively anti-capitalist. Ffs Firefox please remove Google as the default.

„Competition is for losers“

Peter Thiel on WSJ https://archive.li/2014.09.12-221631/http://online.wsj.com/a...

[inemesitaffia]

You also have to find money to pay for development. About a billion or so a year

[justusw]

Interesting. Is that the budget for only search related development or other products as well? (think Stadia, Google Plus etc)