Re:Microsoft CEO Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is ...
by creato on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:38PM
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I agree it’s a moat, but why would azure restrain competition from google? I think it’s just yet another example of an anti-abuse collateral damage, like email anti-spam blocking small unknown servers or Cloudflare blocking unknown IPs.
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Re:Microsoft CEO Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is ...
by whatshisface on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:03PM
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Moats are anticompetitive, that's the entire idea behind why founders want them. Who else would a moat keep away, customers? ;)
Re:Microsoft CEO Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is ...
by kazinator on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:07PM
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Customers are kept in by moats.
Re:Microsoft CEO Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is ...
by whatshisface on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @12:18AM
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That's lock-in, moats are things that keep your competitors out. Source: https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/05/economicmoat.asp
Re:Microsoft CEO Testifies That Google’s Power in Search Is ...
by sokoloff on Monday October 02, 2023 @08:43PM
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Because Azure customers want Google to be able to index their sites.
Would you host your e-commerce or social media site on a cloud provider that blocked Googlebot?
It's not Microsoft giving Google a handout out of the goodness of their hearts; it's Azure customers demanding that functionality. (Those Azure customers also don't care about a random little search startup and probably don't want to pay any egress fees to serve traffic to it.)
AWS offers it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bo...
Oracle as well: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/WAF/Bot/good_bot_...
Akamai as well: https://www.akamai.com/products/bot-manager