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by bobdole12345 2209 days ago
Google is a search engine company that gives better results because it has more opportunities to improve the product with each request it sees.

Advertising is the same way: The more opportunities you have to try matching a person with a thing they might like, the more you'll learn.

Google is on a scale that are likely two orders of magnitude more than their closest competitor.

Hilariously, Google is by far the best at mapping local people with local businesses, as they've mapped most commercial centers, and run heavy machine learning across them to extract information their competitors can't even hope to try for another decade.