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Is Google Unstoppable?

At this point Amazon is probably the less evil corporation compared to Google.

As far as Search as a product goes, Google is basically unstoppable IMO. They’re just far and away ahead of everyone else in both the engineering and theoretical side. They have the best infra for it and will keep their lead because they also get by far the most data for search which just goes into a positive feedback loop.

The gap between Google Search and any other Search competitor is way way way larger than say.. AWS and any other direct competitor.

In order for Google to be challenged on the Search front, I think it’ll require a fundamental change (in medium) in the way people prefer looking things up on the Internet. Which is obviously an incredibly difficult question.

DDG is quite good, rarely do I need to resort to Google.

I wasn't really talking about Search.. Google has a lot of products now and they're all designed to further its goals of collecting information on people and otherwise controlling the internet. Chrome, DNS, AMP, Android, etc.

With a .41% market share, DuckDuckGo is no threat to Google.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Web_search_engine#/Market_share

Really surprised Baidu isn't higher.

Not near as good as Google unfortunately. From two sites with the same content I'm searching, google always knows the one that I prefer. Always; Power of Tracking I suppose;

Can anyone fill me in as to why? I've been more pissed at Amazon lately

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