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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by GuiA on Saturday May 20, 2017 @02:08PM (#14383542)
Whatever ends up killing Google, if anything, won't be an alternative search engine where you type something in a textbox and get results.

Something like Alexa, or other voice assistants, are probably closer to what that Google killer would end up looking like. Good thing that Google got in there early.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by amelius on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:05AM (#14386551)
> Whatever ends up killing Google, if anything, won't be an alternative search engine where you type something in a textbox and get results.

Killing another search engine is exactly how Google got big.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by randomsearch on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:13AM (#14386733)
There was room for a much better search engine back then.

There isn't anymore. It needs to be fundamentally different.

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Re:Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012) by sjg007 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:20AM (#14387667)
I think Facebook could do it.
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