| > In order to compete with Google effectively, you'd have to build your own crawler etc.. It's essentially impossible. The number of engineers, data centres other components ... my gosh man. The Internet Archive does this with an annual budget of $10M. That is clearly not a lot of money compared to the amount on the table. > If Google decides to get into your line of business, and you are small, they will absolutely wipe you out if they want to, and it has nothing to do with having 'a better product'. That is what happens if any multi-billion dollar company decides to get into your line of business. > How could a mobile OS vendor compete in a market where Google is using billions from one market, to dominate a different one, like mobile OS? This is conspicuously disproven by basically every mobile device maker around, who all maintain their own Android forks, plus Apple. The point of Android wasn't to dominate the OS market, it was to commodify it -- which it did. But that's the opposite of anticompetitive. Now entering the OS market is trivial because you can start with Android, make zero or more changes to it and you have yourself an OS without paying Google or anyone else a dime. You don't even have to use Google search. |