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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by josefx on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:22PM (#26593935)
Only if Google stays around long term. I wouldn't be surprised if each free product on its graveyard took down a dozen of competing products before it was killed of.
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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by pc86 on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:26PM (#26593970)
Then someone can start a competitor up again, right? Assuming there's actually a market for it.
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Re:Only Google is really allowed to crawl the web by josefx on Friday March 26, 2021 @12:44PM (#26594181)
Not every market is lucrative in the extreme and it can take a long time to recover from being "disrupted". I think it is also a common practice for larger shopping chains to dump prices when they open a new location in order to clear out the local competition, so the damage it causes is well understood to be long lasting.
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