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by Jommi 2775 days ago
The problem with this is twofold: 1. How do we define the "best" search engine?

2. How can we know that the only reason Google can keep being the best out of incumbents is because of past network value. e.g. if a competitor had access to the same amount of historical sea h data as Google, could they use it in a better way?