Google needs more competition. Most folks, including me are just too lazy to deal with other search engines besides Google. I suspect there are other versions of YouTube also, many of them free. I long for the day when Google and Facebook become antiquated and underutilized, like MySpace and AOL have now become.
There’s already a Godtube. The variable here is how many people are going to care.
They have good competition for search, but what would benefit everyone (other than Google) is if they had good competition for AdWords. Its their strangle hold on competitors in other areas.
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An aspiring conservative competitor cannot start-up his own Google any more than he can start-up his own auto company,water works,etc. There is a lack of what economists call “free entry”.
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