Re:Don't bet on the most likely winner
by buzzerbetrayed on Monday July 06, 2020 @10:57AM
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Didn’t Microsoft essentially pay people to use Bing at the start with their “2 Microsoft reward points per search” policy? I feel like I remember doing that for about a week.
Tech is still young, and we shall see. Google made around $16 billion dollars in 2014. That means an economic rationalist is willing to pay everyone on earth something in the order of $2 dollars to use their service rather than Google's.
It isn't too late to discover that the equilibrium position is we get paid to use certain search engines or social networks. That'd drive the marginal cost up.