The common presumption with free markets is that companies will grow until they consume the world. But as this article suggests, what actually happens is that companies grow until their internal bureaucracy strangles them.
Google's search business is heavily optimized towards and dependent on selling ads. Competing directly with them in search is not likely to work. But another way of doing search (I don't know what that might be) could completely undermine it.
After all, Google sank Alta Vista and Yahoo with another way of doing search.
Google's search business is heavily optimized towards and dependent on selling ads. Competing directly with them in search is not likely to work. But another way of doing search (I don't know what that might be) could completely undermine it.
After all, Google sank Alta Vista and Yahoo with another way of doing search.