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by darkhorn 3163 days ago
Facebook is just social networking web site. People can get bored and use some other web site.

Amazon is only a shopping web site and a hosting company. There are popular companis like Amazon, such as AliBaba and DigitalOcean. There is nothing special about Amazon.

Google is a search engine, smart phone OS, mail, maps, video service, web browser. Looks like Google has way more chanse than Facebook and Amazon.
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luckydude 3163 days ago
I think you underestimate the value of all the product reviews on Amazon. While I doubt that I've been influenced by ads on Google, I'm influenced all the time by the reviews on Amazon. Yeah, Amazon needs to do better about the fake reviews (and they are working on it, it's gotten better).

But there is a huge amount of value tied up in those reviews. I'd argue that it creates such a network effect that starting up a competitor would be really hard. Possible but Amazon would have to stumble.

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darkhorn 3158 days ago
What about reviews in Turkish language and what about shipping to Turkey? Amazon is mostly for English speaking world.

On the other hand Google, Apple, Microsoft has no language barrier. Amazon is 4th among them.

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