[melange]

Gibberish.

There is no alternative URL to click on because a competitive global search engine would cost billions of dollars to build, the space is deeply encumbered by Google's giant patent portfolio, and the information used to build the index is to a great extent no longer available on the web.

That's why Bing is a distant second and there are no other players.

[danmaz74]

Gibberish? Do you know what "vendor lock in" means at all? Your points have nothing to do with that.

[melange]

Barriers to market entry are a kind of vendor lock-in. We are locked in.