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Re:OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data Op... by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:42AM (#42866289)
> There are different moats [1]. You’re describing incumbency, an intangible moat. It’s nice, but it’s fickle. Particularly with something with low switching costs.

Google has a low switching cost, and hardly anyone switches.

ChatGPT is quite similar to Google in this way.

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Re:OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data Op... by scarface_74 on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @11:34AM (#42867213)
Thought experiment: if tomorrow Apple changed the default search engine from Google to ChatGPT for iOS, how fast would Google’s dominance drop?

iOS has 70% market share in the US

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Re:OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data Op... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @10:44AM (#42866334)
> Google has a low switching cost, and hardly anyone switches

Google has massive network effects on its ad business and a natural monopoly on its search index. Crawling the web is expensive. It’s why Kagi has to pay Google (versus being able to pay them once and then stop).

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