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by crazygringo 455 days ago
I honestly don't know what you're trying to say anymore. Your original comment was:

> Lock-in for search engines should be near zero and yet people won't bother switching to or even trying potentially better options. At the end of the day, people don't leave what they are used to easily.

Now you're admitting people do switch when something else is much better. And they do so easily. Which was my point.

So I think we agree then?

(And no, people aren't individually trying out 26 search engines. But experts in these things do, and they write articles and post YouTube videos etc. when a new search engine is better, and then people try it out and switch if it really is better. Surely you don't think people should be wasting their time personally comparing every new minor search engine entrant?)

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>Now you're admitting people do switch when something else is much better. And they do so easily. Which was my point.

I'm saying people don't bother trying potentially better options and that they don't easily leave what they are used to. What part of that statement implies they would never leave for a much better product? I'm genuinely baffled.

>But experts in these things do

Yeah.. experts in...search engines? Lol. Those guys aren't making videos for marginally better products and even if they are, it doesn't necessarily mean anything.

If it was as simple as better model > gets all the users then Anthropic Usage wouldn't still be dwarfed by GPT.

Network Effects are not the only thing that creates stickiness for customers.

> I'm saying people don't bother trying potentially better options and that they don't easily leave what they are used to. What part of that statement implies they would never leave for a much better product? I'm genuinely baffled.

The part where you say "they don't easily leave what they are used to".

They do. They leave, easily, when there's a better product. As I gave examples of. I don't know what further evidence you could want. You're positing some supposed stickiness that simply doesn't exist. You've given no evidence of it.